Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
Women watched for the spectacular performances of the men , and there can be no reasonable doubt that the presence of an audience is a very important factor in shaping the men's behavior. In fact, it is probable that the men are more exhibitionistic because the women admire their performances. Conversely, there can be no doubt that the spectacular behavior is a stimulus which summons the audience together, promoting in the women the appropriate behavior.
Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
I was always apologizing for yesterday's behavior and I got tired of it. I feel it's good being straight. As I did when I first got high. It's a high to be straight because I was getting loaded every day.
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.
Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.
In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.
If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience andunderstanding. . . and snatch an opportunity to shape character.
The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.
Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.