Behavior Quotes - Page 21

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

Reward the behavior you want repeated.

In short-to overstate the point only slightly-because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.

One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.

I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.

Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom.

Sex is meant to be, if not addictive, at least a very compelling behavior.

Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

3 "amnesty" didn't mean rewarding illegal behavior.