Quotes About Behavior

I love the sound you make when you shut the fu.. up.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

A smile to someone could make the difference between them going home and axe murdering their family or having a nice meal!

Being of sound mind I spent every cent I ever had.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

It's nothing serious, " he said. "It's just an obsession.