Quotes About Behavior

High-protein diets can cause elevated levels of aggression, especially territorial aggression such as Bailey was showing. So Jack and Sarah needed to change Bailey's diet.

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

The power of human habit never failed to astonish her. How was it that two intelligent, decent people who basically loved each other could get so locked into a pattern of behavior that neither of them - or so she presumed - enjoyed? It was as if each knew the role he or she was expected to take and had no choice but to play it

The Net's interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.

Apple is well connected to its fan and professional user base and it does use research to generate insights into customer behaviour. Interestingly though, this seems not to be about asking people to suggest what they want, but rather to explore people's whole lives (not just what they do as consumers at the point of purchase) and from there to make the imaginative leap to innovation.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

If canines can be conditioned to salivate over nonexistent food, may not men one day be likewise taught to salivate at the prospect of nonexistent facts?

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

no animal likes to be pecked on the anus by a duck.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

People who confuse social behavior with manners naturally think of it as something that can be donned and doffed, a fashion that can be copied. But social behavior is nerve and bone, not clothes, and is never just a copy, however derivative it may look.

Character is what you do when no one else is watching.

Humans are tribalistic hypocrites who judge their enemies by their actions but themselves by their intentions.

For a while she enjoyed a life in which she behaved exactly as she should: a royal maid with no secrets.

Saying what made people in power think well of you was as much a habit for Breguswith as showing her curves was for Gwladus.

I can't tell you what is right," she said, "but I can tell you what is expected by others, and by this child. It doesn't matter what she calls you. Mom or Tante or Aud, if legally you are her mother, somewhere inside she will expect you to behave as one. It doesn't matter if this is likely, or even possible, it is what she will expect.

I wondered whether to file flattery under useful teaching technique or craven behavior.

Al repudiar los ritos, el hombre se reduce a animal que copula y come.

Good manners, in the end, are nothing but the way in which respect is expressed. Since respect, in its turn, is a feeling inspired by the presence of an admitted superior, wherever hierarchies are absent—real or fictitious, but revered—good manners die out. Rudeness is a democratic product.

Civilizations are not made "avec des idées" but with good manners.

Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.

The ignoramus believes that the expression "aristocratic manners" signified insolent behavior; whoever investigates discovers that the expression signified courtesy, refinement, dignity.

Between animal and man there is no barrier but a palisade of taboos.