Behavioral Traits Quotes

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

There is more than just words to define a person.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Some dogs act like people and some people act like dogs.

Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

The major problem with most attempts to predict a specific outcome, such as interviews, is decontextualization: the attempt takes place in a generalized environment, as opposed to the context in which a behavior or trait naturally occurs.

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.

Character isn't inherited.

At the time, when I was growing up, my habits were misconstrued as laziness, not caring. But when I got out onto the pitch I actually did care about football, I just showed it in a different way.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.