Quotes About Behavior

Common early indicators of serial murder are bed-wetting, fire-starting, and animal torture, sometimes called the McDonald Triad

Our daily words and actions lead to decisions, our decisions create habits, and our habits create our future selves.

There are two kinds of habits: those that serve you, and those that don't.

take care with what you think. Because what you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get.

A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life. And a negative philosophy turns into a negative attitude, which turns into negative actions, which turns into negative results, which turns into a negative lifestyle.

That's the choice you face every day, every hour: A simple, positive action, repeated over time. A simple error in judgment, repeated over time. So easy to do. So easy not to do.

The first step to increasing your happiness is to understand what positive psychology research has been telling us for the past fifteen years: the most significant factors in your day-to-day, moment-to-moment level of happiness are not circumstantial. They're not heredity. They're not dictated by your genes or caused by outside events. The most significant factors in your happiness are your actions. What you do every day.

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." —Charles Reade

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

Every decision you make is a slight edge decision. What you're going to do, how you're going to act, what you're going to read, who you're going to chat with on the phone, what you're going to eat for lunch, who you're going to associate with. How you're going to treat your fellow workers. What you're going to get done today.

The clean language and distinction between output and outcome was first made clear to me in a talk by Robert Fabricant called "Behavior Is Our Medium".

He was on whatever combination of drugs makes you constantly lick your lips and ignore stoplights.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy

In truth, some demons were once people who did bad things even though they knew better. In truth, people were demons when they didn't know any better. The girl had learned that it hardly mattered in the end

Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy.

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no. ... All we are is the result of what we have thought. By changing our mode of thinking, we can remake ourselves completely.

Although not conscious, everyone senses the potent sensitivity or volatility under the surface in the NPD individual.

higher functioning NPD individual will have a rigid sense of right and wrong, which tends to be black and white, or concrete. She will often be extremely judgmental of others and harsh in her opinion of the necessary punishments for wrongdoing. While she may rarely

The lower functioning NPD individual (in closer proximity to the sociopath on the continuum) will be prone to constantly bending the rules for himself although outwardly he may criticize others for a similar infraction or transgression.

Spesso si parla dell'istinto di distruzione della massa, è la sua caratteristica più vistosa, quella che, innegabilmente, si ritrova ovunque nei paesi e nelle civiltà più diverse.

Just be aware that what you achieve doesn't matter as much as what kind of person you are

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

Tell me how you measure me and I'll tell you how I will behave.