Quotes About Behavior

Now she was talking to me like I was a hysterical human. Worse, I was acting like a hysterical human.

I can also be kind of an asshole. ("Kind of" = in the 70 percent–80 percent range.)

Humans and augmented humans shift their weight when they stand, they react to sudden sounds and bright lights, they scratch themselves, they adjust their hair, they look in their pockets or bags to check for things that they already know are in there.

But they were humans—who knows why they did anything?

We could kill them,' Stone suggested, not helpfully. It would have been a tense moment, except Heart sighed impatiently and said, 'Line-grandfather, not in front of company.' Delin lifted a hand. 'I know Stone is merely stimulating discussion.' Pearl eyed Stone and lifted her spines. 'Perhaps Stone could stop doing that.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

Christians become friends with the world when they follow its psychological theories to understand themselves and others and to change behavior. They are friends of the world when they call sinful behavior "mental illness" and sinful habits "diseases.

A major problem with many codependency/recovery books is the belief that going back to childhood to find the why's of present feelings and behavior and even to find where patterns developed will bring relief and transformation.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

At the lowest level of explanation, therefore, people are said to perform a behavior because they intend to do so, they have the requisite skills and abilities, and there are no environmental constraints to prevent them from carrying out their intentions (i.e., they have favorable intentions and actual behavioral control).

An intuitive definition is that a safe refactoring is one that doesn't break a program. Because a refactoring is intended to restructure a program without changing its behavior, a program should perform the same way after a refactoring as it does before.

Moving state and behavior between classes is the very essence of refactoring. As the system develops, you find the need for new classes and the need to shuffle responsibilities around. A design decision that is reasonable and correct one week can become incorrect in another. That is not a problem; the only problem is not to do something about it.

journalist of the occult, and a firm believer in ghosts, poltergeists, levitations, dowsing, PK (psychokinesis), ESP, and every other aspect of the psychic scene. After dismissing classical astrology as pseudoscience, in his four-column entry on astrology, Wilson goes on to defend what he calls "astro- biology"-the view that positions of the sun, moon, and planets strongly influence human personality and behavior.

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.

We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.

Every year thousands of dogs are abandoned to shelters because of behavior problems. And these are things that can be corrected with just basic training. Dogs are being killed because of lack of training, and that's what the Canine Good Citizen program is all about. (Mary Burch, AKC)

In a surprising 2008 study, researchers at the University of Bath, UK, found that the fear of failure drives consumers far more than the promise of success; the latter oddly tends to paralyze us, while the former spurs us on (and pries open our wallets). In fact, as the study found, the most powerful persuader of all was giving consumers a glimpse of some future "feared self."24

Desire is always linked to a story, and to a gap that needs to be filled: a yearning that intrudes, agitates and motivates human behavior both consciously and unconsciously.

Cuanto mayor sea el grado de estrés, más temerosos, inseguros e inciertos nos sentimos y más irracional tiende a ser nuestro comportamiento.

Because their fears were so deep, verbal acknowledgment would not suffice. He had to model the behavior.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but a wicked man does evil works.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Therefore, beware of such misleading, shameful, and deceptive prattle, which represents Christ solely as a Teacher of works, as though He had taught and showed us nothing but proper conduct and behavior. In that capacity He could not be called the Way; then He would be no more than a cross or a votive picture on the wayside. This indeed directs the wayfarer correctly, but it itself does not bear him along.

It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.