As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is - when there is a new environmental...

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

When you don't win, you talk a lot. It's normal.

When my brain switches to fight mode and there is talk of opponents, then I change a little and become a little more aggressive and mouthy!

One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

I will not tolerate bad behavior from children, so why would I tolerate it from grown adults?

This trolling culture is not good.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

I am not a greedy person.

Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.

There was always something odd about Jimmy Savile, you knew that.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque...

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

I have this problem that I just like to get a reaction from people.

If you let people think they can get away with a certain type of behaviour, people will take advantage of it.

I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes.

I have not been a believer of point guidance. It really limits your flexibility to do what you want. It leads to behavior that is not supportive of long-term shareholder value.

If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.

If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being...

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

The concept of 'Bad Magic' is something that is incredibly intoxicating and magical but ultimately bad for you.

There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.

Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be detected because they fidget a lot, hold very still, cross their legs, cross...

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You...

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.