Quotes About Behavior

How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God.

Since Borne never displayed any kind of threatening behavior, I never thought to take him as a threat. Even calling Borne a "he" began to feel faintly ridiculous as he didn't exhibit the aggression or self-absorption I expected from most males. Instead

I also think that human behavior is so mysterious and unpredictable that if you are not humble about it you are bound to be insensitive to a lot of the dilemmas and predicaments that people are facing.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.

You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward.

1. Self-Sacrifice (subjugation out of guilt) 2. Submissiveness (subjugation out of fear)

Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles." That's a quote from America's business philosopher, Jim Rohn.

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

Each connection that neuroscientists forged between a neurochemical and a behavior, or at least a propensity toward a behavior, seemed to deal another blow to the notion of an efficacious will.

To refrain from an act is no less an act than to commit one.

The life we lead, in other words, leaves its mark in the form of enduring changes in the complex circuitry of the brain-footprints of the experiences we have had, the actions we have taken. This is neuroplasticity. As Mike Merzenich asserted, the mechanisms of neuroplasticity "account for cortical contributions to our idiosyncratic behavioral abilities and, in extension, for the geniuses, the fools, and the idiot savants among us.

The most fundamental principle of learning theory is that behavior is a function of its consequences. When

narcissism levels have increased significantly among college students over the past several decades.

Men tend to be more narcissistic than women, possibly because men are somewhat more competitive and women are more communal, and also because narcissistic behavior would be much more gender-role discrepant for women than for men.

overconfident individuals achieved higher social status, respect, and influence in groups.

people with higher narcissism scores were more likely to emerge as leaders during four-person initially leaderless group discussions.

you change people's behavior by having them set some specific, measurable goals, reminding them of what they have committed to do, measuring their activities and providing frequent feedback, and providing positive reinforcement for progress. Effective

Individuals who wear fake (counterfeit) branded sunglasses cheat more often across a number of different tasks.

By calling BS on so much of what goes on, this book gives people a closer, more scientific look at many dimensions of leadership behavior. Most important, it encourages everyone to finally stop accepting sugar-laced but toxic potions as cures.

weight gain was dependent on the weight gains of others with whom that person was socially tied.