Quotes About Behavior

When algorithms become deeply embedded in our daily lives, they have the potential to greatly influence how we behave. If we reach that point, we will no longer be able to easily discern how much of our memory, experiences, tastes, or even our own identity is native to us and how much is merely the technological extensions of ourselves.

In the final analysis all people—and governments alike—act in their self-interest.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.

Religion is actually all of these—belief or doctrine, feeling or attitudes, and a way of life or manner of behaving.

Talvolta si può cadere nell'equivoco di credere che certa letteratura induca a certi comportamenti, quando è vero esattamente il contrario. È sempre la domanda a precedere la risposta. [...] La letteratura (anche quella disegnata) ha la possibilità di mantenere circoscritte nell'ambito della fantasia quelle ossessioni che altrimenti troverebbero un inevitabile sfogo nella realtà. [...] La censura è sempre dannosa.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

People are awful. Drink some beer.

Words never mattered' he said, 'seasons mattered. Notice how people behave when they're desperate - that's who they are,' he warned.

Be perfect, child. Every Korean must be on his best behavior over there. They think so little of us already. You cannot give them any room to think worse of us. One bad Korean ruins it for thousands of others. And one bad Christian, ruins it for Tens of Thousands of Christians everywhere.

I find that in life, even the most unsympathetic person has a clear delineation of his motives, however complex and unappealing, but to him, there is a moral clarity to his actions. I think part of my job as a storyteller is to recognize the congruity or incongruity of his motives and behavior and somehow still be fair to the character and to the reader.

So much of college is girls labeling other girls terrible things when they don't like their behavior, but using concerned language so they have plausible deniability is they get accused of being bitches: That girl is not cheerfully doing what the rest of us are doing, so she is probably 'depressed' or 'has an eating disorder' or 'is weird with guys,' and so on.

When you are entitled, you are the most insufferable person ever. If you are entitled and hardworking, which I am, you are still pretty insufferable, but at least you somewhat earned your entitled behavior.

I love diet soda; when I drink juice or regular soda it makes my blood sugar spike and I act like a cracked out Rachael Ray, but without the helpful household tips.

When you are entitled, you are the most insufferable person ever. If you are entitled and hardworking, which I am, you are still pretty insufferable, but at least you somewhat earned your entitled behavior. For

The laws of bullying allow you to be cruel even when the victim had made strides for improvement? This is when I realized that bullies have no code of conduct.

Women always take bad behavior by men and twist it to make it so it's somehow our fault, not theirs. It makes more sense to us that we're somehow wrong than the possibility that a man is being rude.

So much of college is girls labeling other girls terrible things when they don't like their behavior, but using concerned language so they have plausible deniability if they get accused of being bitches: That girl is not cheerfully doing what the rest of us are doing, so she is probably "depressed" or "has an eating disorder" or "is weird with guys," and so on.

Men know what they want. Men make concrete plans. Men own alarm clocks. Men sleep on a mattress that isn't on the floor. Men tip generously. Men buy new shampoo instead of adding water to a nearly empty bottle of shampoo. Men go to the dentist. Men make reservations. Men go in for a kiss without giving you some long preamble about how they're thinking of kissing you.

But a guy at thirty-two—he can act and dress like a grown man or a thirteen-year-old boy, and both are totally acceptable.

Aha, Mine-chan, I see. It all becomes clear. And I have to hand it to you, you are a little rascal." As far as I'm concerned, there is never an excuse for bad behavior.

It's [the word "sorry"] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

I don't believe in psychology, which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.

Why do you think we are the only animal that kisses? She was near again. Because the area in front of our faces is our most intimate zone. She drew a breath. This is why humans are the only romantic animal!