Behavior Quotes

For usually when people are self-centered, they are self-centered because they are seeking attention, they want to be admired and this is the way they set out to do it. But in the process, because of their self-centeredness, they are not admired; they are mawkish and people don't want to be bothered with them. And so the very thing they seek, they never get. And they end up frustrated and unhappy and disillusioned.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards, our dwellings shape us.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently, his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Humor is the ability to discern in a kindly way the folly in what is considered normal, sublime behavior, and to discern the discrepancy in what appears as a truth.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.