Quotes About Behavior

People aren't too different from lab rats. We seek out rewarding experiences and steer clear of punishing ones. If interaction with you is a disagreeable event, people will avoid it. (from chapter 12) tl;dr people aren't too different from lab rats

A person caught in a neurotic state, in some respects may well be compared to a man bewitched. Forced to a very low level of behavior, people suffering from a neurosis is capable of acting jarring and so destructive to themselves and to others, with basic or instinctive motivations.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman probably thinks it's all her fault.

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.

People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.