When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind.
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.
Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.
I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.
All employees. . . deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.
Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior
Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
Human action is purposeful behavior.
One of the things that's very troubling to voters about Donald Trump is his erratic behavior, his lack of good temperament to serve as commander in chief.
When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.
Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.