Quotes About Behavior

He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

Hence, the new operating principle was simple: do the opposite of what they (Obama, but the Bush neocons, too) would do. Their behavior, their conceits, their ideas - in some sense even their backgrounds, education and class -- were all suspect. And, what's more, you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

the president-elect wore what some around him had taken to calling his golf face: angry and pissed off, shoulders hunched, arms swinging, brow furled, lips pursed. This had become the public Trump—truculent Trump.

he had an almost autistic level of unresponsiveness;

Still, power provides its own excuses for social lapses.

Many Japanese kids don't express themselves. They would rather express themselves in a fantasy world and through passive-agressive behavior. They go on behavior strike, they go into emotional shutdown. This is one of the ways of expressing a Japanese way of life. But in acting this way, these children are simply mirroring the behavior they see among adult Japanese, especially those from elite or privileged backgrounds.

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Finalement, le plus grand bénéfice du métier d'humoriste, et plus généralement de l'attitude humoristique, dans la vie, c'est de pouvoir se comporter comme un salaud en toute impunité, et même de pouvoir grassement rentabiliser son abjection, en succès sexuels comme en numéraire, le tout avec l'approbation générale. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,1)

You're what," I asked, "Catholic? Fascist? Both?" It just popped out. I was out of practice with intellectuals of the right—I couldn't remember how to behave. All at once, in the distance, we heard a kind of sustained crackling. "What was that, do you think?" asked Alice. "It sounded like shooting," she added, hesitantly. We fell silent

TotuÈ™i, în anumite circumstanÈ›e, extrem de rare – creÈ™tinii vorbesc de minuni ale harului – o nou? und? de coeren?? apare È™i se propag? în creier; un nou comportament apare, temporar sau definitiv, determinat de un sistem total diferit de oscilaÈ›ii armonice; atunci se observ? ceea ce numim un act liber.

Cand iubirea a disparut, viata devine oarecum conventionala si silnica; pastrezi o forma umana, comportamentele obisnuite, un soi de structura, dar sufletul, cum se spune, e gol.

If the fluidification of forms of behavior required by a developed economy was incompatible with a normative catalog of restrained conduct, it was, however, perfectly suited to a perpetual celebration of the will and the ego.

Cependant, l'animal le plus faible est en général en mesure d'éviter le combat par l'adoption d'une posture de soumission (accroupissement, présentation de l'anus).

L'homme n'est ni ange, ni bête, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête" [El hombre no es ni ángel ni bestia y, por desgracia, el que quiere hacerse el ángel hace el tonto].

That's the thing with the real world. It's never going to be perfect, and I don't have control over that. But I can control how I behave in it, and how I let things affect me. I can choose to be perfect in my own way without having to be perfect in everyone else's eyes. Relying on other people to reflect my worth back to me is a fool's errand.

I think there are many church members and churches in general that spend too much time policing the behavior of others than to pray for them that God helps them to make the changes they need to in their lives.

Do something every day to change your attitude—instead of trying to think your way into right acting, act your way into right thinking. Act the person you want to be, and gradually that's the person you will become.

You can be a lousy vampire. You can be a lousy human. What you are doesn't mean anything. It's what you do with what you are that counts.

Manners,[...] are severely underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" "Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Believe that on occasion that much death can become tedious.