Quotes About Behavior

Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.

They are merely partaking of the evolutionary miracle found most obviously in man, but not necessarily any more useful to his survival than a raven's, or a cat's, or a chimp's is to its.

a logical man must behave in a crisis as if his calculated risk were indeed a certainty Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Someday someone is going to create a stir by proposing a radical new tool for the study people. It will be called the face-value technique. It would be based on the premise that people often do what they do for the reasons they think they do. The use of this technique will lead to many pitfalls, for it is undeniably true that people do not always act logically or say what they mean. But I wonder if it would produce findings any more unscientific than the opposite course.

exhibited the mannerisms of a nervous man. He had glanced around too frequently in the waiting area, had drummed his fingers on the bench, had tapped the boarding pass on his knee, had eyed every fellow passenger in the tree-shaded square.

Whom do I love? I love someone because I expect something from that person. I expect him to behave in a way that I like. The moment he starts to behave in a different way, all my love is gone. Then do I really love this person or myself?

Hay tres tipos de acciones: físicas, verbales y mentales. Por lo general concedemos mayor importancia a las acciones físicas, luego a las verbales y por último a las mentales.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.

Good temper is an estate for life.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Therefore we must give a certain character to our activities. . . . In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

But in the investment arena, our social instincts are poison.

For example, the most consistent bit of irrational investment behavior is the commonplace observation that we are less likely to sell losers than winners. This is known in behavioral finance circles as "regret avoidance." Holding onto a stock that has done poorly keeps alive the possibility that we will not have to confront the finality of our failure.

Arguably the most substantive domestic issue facing the republic is the fate of Social Security, with privatization the most frequently mentioned option. For the first time in history, a familiarity with the behavior of the financial markets has become a prerequisite for competent citizenship, apart from its obvious pecuniary value. Using

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Habit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

I don't know why a government would behave any differently from the people who comprise it," Mother Beal said around the stem of her pipe. "When it comes to money, people often behave in ungracious and ungrateful ways.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

Alex and Laurel have three young kids, too, aged seven, nine, and eleven. I find these spoiled children more insufferable every time I see them. At this rate, I expect that very soon my nieces and nephews will be suitable only to be sewn up in a burlap bag with a wolverine and tossed into the nearest river.)

narcissistic personality disorder. This is the one you probably know something about. Its primary characteristics are grandiosity and lack of empathy.