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Quotes About Behavior

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
~ Virgil
La predicción y la prevención del comportamiento violento forman una parte central de la práctica en psicología y en psiquiatría forense.
~ Unknown
Consequences of breaking the rules should fit the rule broken and should have the aim of teaching her the repercussions of antisocial behavior; they should not have the aim of being punitive.
~ Unknown
In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things, In the home the reverse is the case. That is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.
~ Virginia Graham
Immanuel Birmelin, an ethologist at the Society of Animal Behavior Research in Germany, explained how patient he'd had to be in order to run a test to see if cats can count: "One of the cats would do the test once in the morning—only!" he recalled. "Another would do it once in the afternoon—only!" It had taken him four years to show that cats can count to four.
~ Unknown
We were wrong about why these animals behave as they do, in part, I think, because most of us do not grant animals even the simplest form of thought, or recognize that they do things intentionally.
~ Unknown
Modul în care adul?ii î?i folosesc puterea sau influen?a depinde în mare m?sur? de ceea ce au înv??at în familie, pe când erau copii.
~ Virginia Satir
Cuanto más escasa es la virilidad de un tipo, más atento está a lo que hacen las mujeres. Y al contrario, cuanta más seguridad tiene un hombre mejor soporta la diversidad de actitudes de las mujeres y su masculinidad.
~ Virginie Despentes
Children are deeply curious about odd behaviors and seldom offended or worried by them. What a remarkable gift to bestow on another person, it occurs to me, and so difficult for adults to accomplish.
~ Unknown
Do Not Listen to What They Say, Look at What They Do
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
~ Voltaire
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
~ Voltaire
T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
women lose control when they're afraid and that men lose control when they're in love.
~ Unknown
Yet did you know that every dog alive today has a little wolf DNA? Not just huskies, who often look like wolves, but pugs, corgis, poodles? Chuhuahuas - they sometimes act like they still are wolves.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Humans know everything, not just how to take car rides or where to find bacon but also when dogs are good or bad and where dogs should sleep and what toys they should play with.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) and Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (Mariner Books, 2006).
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Some humans seem to get excited when they notice dogs peeing in the yard;
~ W. Bruce Cameron
The little chipmunk was safe! Not that it was paying any attention. It was so busy digging for nuts, it had never once bothered to look up at the sky. That's just one of the many differences between squirrels and dogs: a dog always knows what is going on.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
He kept barking until the car turned a corner. Some dogs are like that. They start barking and then they just don't stop, even if they have forgotten why they were barking in the first place.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Sorry I spit, I'll try to quit?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Craig took the phone. Human beings seem to like phones a lot. They stare at them and touch them and talk to them all the time, even with a dog in the room. I do not know why. Phones do not smell at all interesting.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Children should neither be seen nor heard from – ever again.
~ W. C. Fields