Modeling a behavior is 100x stronger than telling someone to act differently. Kids imitate the habits of their parents. Teammates match the competitive energy of one another. Employees learn to manage like their supervisor. Be...

Our nonverbal behavior (including posture) gives away our inner personality and reflects our inner attitude.

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group…then to hell with them.

The more immediate the consequences, the more trustworthy the behavior.

In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is…only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can...

It is not necessary to change a person in order to change their behavior. Just change their environment. Similarly, it is not necessary to change your environment in order to change your behavior—if you can...

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behavior.

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we...

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable.

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable....

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.

socialize” at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy.

But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple: because we care about animals, and we don’t want them to suffer. And...

Judge character by behavior.

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

We’ve got ‘trigger points’ set up depending on what the weather does and what the fire behavior does. This fire is just really devastating.

If you make it easy for the kid to continue their behavior, you’re enabling–making excuses, calling in to school if they’re hung over.

For him to lecture these applicant countries or these accepted members on their way in was really behavior like the worst of what the French complain about in the United States,

He wasn’t behaving up to standards that meet our ethical code. He was engaging in behavior that was unbecoming of an officer.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

Never crave to be known for someone you are not. Be who you are in the day and when the lights are off, remain true!

Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?

During the first four years of justices’ tenure, their voting behavior correlates at a rather high level with their appointing president’s ideology, but for justices with ten or more years of service, that relationship drops...

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image

Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words.

Out of one hundred random thoughts that pass through your mind, ninety-five are your brain’s indirect responses (positive & negative) to what you believe others think of you.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own occupation may be, to go to the...

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

Watch what people do before they say something. Then watch what they do before they say something else. That’s where the Truth Lies.

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want...

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

I hope I have encouraged people in business to expand the way they make sense of human behavior.

His whole behavior is so shocking,

Remove the artificial watering holes and the elephants will resume their natural behavior of seasonal migration, giving places they have left a chance to recover.

Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn’t a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn’t matter or a sense that a trip to the polls was inconvenient....

Don’t restrain yourself to mundaneness. You’re subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.

Speak with your words and your message can be distorted… Speak with your actions and you’ll leave no doubt.

We must change the function of government. We must build up a government with regulated behavior and harmonious operations — and which is fair, transparent, clean and efficient.

There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child...

I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle – a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as...

We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man’s cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed animals than ourselves. In fact, however, the extremes of brutal behavior...

Now, we all have stories of how we got here, and prob-probably some of you feel angry who whoever it is who’s left you here. But you must try and remember that they were like...

British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That’s speaking very generally.