Quotes About Behavior

cuando un número importante de personas cambia su modo de pensar y de comportarse, la cultura lo hace también, y una nueva era comienza.

Conner thought he understood how pride could back up in somebody, get turned around and come out as meanness. But that didn't make it any easier to put up with.

Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.

El enfoque económico es el del «individualismo metodológico», según el cual los fenómenos colectivos son resultado de comportamientos individuales y, a su vez, afectan a estos últimos.

Por otra parte, ese fenómeno se ve reforzado por el deseo de la gente de mostrar a los demás o a sí mismos que son «gente de bien»; nuestro altruismo no es totalmente puro, sino que está motivado en parte por nuestro deseo de aparentar, de labrarnos una buena imagen social y personal.

decisions made by economic actors (households, firms, the state) are constrained by limited information.

Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments, as Mrs. Lippett's regime appeared to believe. They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and my children have got to learn them.

Please forgive me for being impertinent and ungrateful. I was badly brought up.

Americans have no past, while Europeans are loaded down by ancient customs, habits, and prejudices that shape their behaviour.

Adoration brings out the worst in some men.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.

how you spend your money has a strong influence on how happy — or unhappy — it will make you. And, again, there's science behind this.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

But intelligence is not just a matter of acting or behaving intelligently. Behavior is a manifestation of intelligence, but not the central characteristic or primary definition of being intelligent. A moment's reflection proves this: You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding. Ignoring what goes on in your head and focusing instead on behavior has been a large impediment to understanding intelligence and building intelligent machines

When you ask yourself, What does an intelligent system do?, it is intuitively obvious to think in terms of behavior. We demonstrate human intelligence through our speech, writing, and actions, right? Yes, but only to a point. Intelligence is something that is happening in your head. Behavior is an optional ingredient. This is not intuitively obvious, but it's not hard to understand either.

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior.

Our neocortex has invented powerful technologies that are capable of changing the entire Earth, but the human behavior that controls these world-changing technologies is often dominated by the selfish and shortsighted old brain.

THOUGHTS WORDS BELIEFS ACTIONS RESULTS

Watch Your Words Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

In words are seen the state of mind, character and disposition of the speaker. — Plutarch