Quotes About Behavior

A good man is called a man by his works

How you treat me is your karma. How I react is mine.

What energy am I holding on to right now in my belief systems, behavior patterns, feelings, and relationships that is not serving my highest good?

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.

Being in a group reveals who individuals are just as much, if not more, than being in a group alters who they are. In this way, groups can reflect some of the baser characteristics of the individuals within them as well as some of the more noble.

You know what makes me the maddest?" Mark seemed confused and somewhat sullen. He took out his pipe and began to pack it from a leather pouch. "That I have to act like a criminal.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

Alex was delighted and astonished with her mother for behaving as a mother should for once.

Behavior of a system whose parts display a choice cannot be explained by mechanical or biological models.

Neither the city planners nor the traffic planners put city space and city life high on their agenda, and for years there was hardly any knowledge about how physical structures influence human behavior. The drastic consequences of this type of planning on people's use of the city were not recognized until later.

have the Personality ourselves so want that others treating You.

No matter how exasperated the circumstances become, officers must bear in mind they are representatives of our government and must conduct themselves in a worthy manner. To become impatient, sarcastic, hostile or personal in remarks is an admission of weakness and defeat and, needless to say, should never occur." In

Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time, like a nincompoop.

De mensen zijn zo consequent als een toverbal en zo voorspelbaar als een tsunami en soms deugen ze opeens.

for some people, laziness could beat out common sense any day.

Perhaps the knowledge that certain behaviors are in some sense hardwired in your spouse—rather than a conscious choice to stick it to you—will help dial down the frustration.

choice increases the likelihood of compliance. It's not the choice itself that's important, it's the feeling that the person has a choice that makes a difference in behavior.

Behavioral Change Stairway Model, five steps that include active listening, showing empathy, building rapport, and gaining influence—which leads, finally, to the fifth step: behavioral change.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please every feature works.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.