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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn’t was beginning to wear on me.

If you can’t forgive yourself, you think you’re never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

Doesn’t matter if you speak either truth or a lie. People are too stubborn to listen only an expected/ pre-concluded/ conjectured answers from you, without having any second thought about the impetus and certitude of...

I never ‘went Hollywood.’ Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn’t go the route of Hollywood parties.

If you identify a population at risk for death, it’s much easier to get them to change their behavior — both to never start smoking in the beginning and to stop if they are smoking...

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly...

Behavior isn’t something someone “has.” Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person’s biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least...

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Readers who have owned animals will appreciate how difficult it would be to train a dog to play exclusively in his own yard, to fetch his sweater whenever he sees it is raining outside, or...

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a...

There are acceptable standards of behavior that the world and certainly the free Iraqi people hope will be followed by its neighbors, including Syria, … and part of that is not to harbor Iraqi leaders.

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante’s Charon in his rowboat on the river...

Yes, it’s vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an...

Humans are the most inhumane of all creatures.

I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

We are looking for a change in the Syrian behavior, we have not seen that yet and we are impatient.

To improve the style of the 401(k), we should recognize the power of inertia in human behavior and enlist it to promote rather than hinder savings.

This civilization is the impact of the world’s consumption behavior.

Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.

I can’t control your behavior; nor do I want that burden… but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or...

Most people put off my mother’s erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything. To me that was just an excuse. I mean, brain surgeons can be...

Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.

The tobacco control movement provides a good model for how to achieve massive societal changes. In 1965, over 50 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. By 2010, only 23.5 percent of men...

If you’re capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what...

People now a days are in business of minding other’s business.

I’ve been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

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 determine how...

In my opinion, being a Christian is a noticeable behavior. If you have to tell somebody you’re a Christian, then you’re probably not doing it right.

I’ve been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

A person only likes his friend to the degree he relates and connects to his character.

…moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance…and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you…

Behavior precedes belief – that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing...