Quotes About Behavior

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

Anger is temporary insanity.

What we do flows from who we are.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.