Quotes About Behavior

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

Sometimes smart people can do very, very stupid things.

You only have control over three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior).

Robert E. Howard from The Tower of the Elephant in my third novel, Savage Son: "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Unlike animals, who react to stimuli but cannot think of rational explanations for them, humans have the ability to change their behavior by understanding causes, circumstances, and solutions.

He pegged criminals as impulsive, immature, deprived of affection, and lacking in restraint, all qualities that later studies bore out.

Psychology, above all, is applying human understanding in a scientific manner. . . . The only profession I have ever encountered which separates the role of a human being from his professional activity," he declared, "was the role of the SS man.

it occurred to me that professors must get so they unconsciously act the way people think professors ought to act;

pooped all over the carpet, eaten the slippers, and attacked the mailman, and was now being sent to obedience school.

Anxiety and depression are both caused by an imbalance in chemicals in our nervous system that stimulate and inhibit how frequently nerves communicate with each other. Too much stimulation or too much inhibition breaks the delicate balance in our nervous system and leads to aberrant behavior.

Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes! No-one knows why.

President Andrew Jackson had rather a foul mouth and owned a parrot. You can probably see where this is going... one shouldn't laugh, but his parrot of course picked up a number of his rather vulgar words, and once had to be ejected after repeating a number of them at a funeral.

The diet of mountain goats lacks an important ingredient - salt. With this in mind, goats seek out areas where it is present to lick, such as a piece of ground or particularly salty rock. However once they discovered that human urine is quite salty, they started hanging out around areas in which people were camping, waiting for a man to unbutton his flies, and would then run up to him and start drinking his pee.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.

The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. —Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology

Serial murderers are frequently found to have unusual or unnatural relationships with their mothers.

significant effect on the behavioral and intellectual development of their children." —Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley, Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing

For this reason, Waldorf preschool teachers try to act in ways that are worthy of imitation and at the same time instructive. Rather than admonishing children to speak softly or work carefully, teachers model these behaviors continually.

Paul is not talking in Romans 1:26–27 about a violation of the order of creation. In Paul's vocabulary, physis (nature) is not a synonym for ktisis (creation). In speaking about what is "natural," Paul is merely accepting the conventional view of people and how they ought to behave in first-century Hellenistic-Jewish culture.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.

Ugly is how someone acts, not how they look.

Like the Chinese, the Italian is a born gambler.