“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.” HomeMotivationBitsClearTerribleBehaviorConsequenceTestsHarderMotivatedBuriedLabsBad BehaviorControl Ourselves Author:Ben Marcus
“You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism.” MeanSeemsTalkingBehaviorJokesHarderSelfishCynicalAltruismDressed Up Author:Stephen Colbert
“It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.” PersonsPlayGuyActingPiecesBehaviorProjectsHarderBarsBelovedCakeRottenBeloved Person Author:Bill Murray
“It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness. They're thinking and feeling the world, but they're saying very little, so then you have to communicate it through your behavior.” ThinkingWorldLittlesPlayCharacterFeelingsHappensConsciousnessQuietBehaviorHarderCommunicateThings HappenStreamsStream Of Consciousness Author:Viola Davis
“Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.” DependsBehaviorPercentHarderGangGetting Along Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.” ThinkingHardHomeHabitBehaviorHarderBack Home Author:Joseph Dougherty
“I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for twenty years. I wasn't pretending to be a China expert in that final chapter. I was just pointing, first to the parallels between Chinese behavior toward us and ours toward GB when we were at the same stage of development, and secondly to how much harder their development path is than ours was.” KnowsYearsFirstsEnoughSpeakPathStageDevelopmentBehaviorHarderTwentiesFinalsChinaChineseExpertsPretendingChaptersPointingParallelsStages Of Development Author:Charles R. Morris
“It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.” PeopleNeedsFeelsHelpingEasyEffortResponsibilityCostBehaviorHarderAccomplishGods WillGreat ThingsSettlingTaking ResponsibilityObedient Author:Joyce Meyer
“Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.” PeopleTryingBornFireSucceedBehaviorHarderFactorsWill To SucceedFire InsideLearned Behavior Author:J.A. Konrath