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.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

[…] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is...

Don’t let someone’s words blind you from their behavior.

Be good. It’ll be a new experience.

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.