Quotes About Behavior

The obnoxious behavior and obscure interaction that software-based products exhibit is institutionalizing what I call software apartheid:

Thus, being dysregulated is not the same as being upset. You can be upset and still be quite able to make effective decisions, hold your tongue, or otherwise "control" yourself—manage to act in ways that help you achieve a better relationship, a better life, rather than simply escaping an unpleasant (or even awful) situation by doing something that hurts the other person, escalates the conflict, or, in general, makes things worse in the long run.

Thus, big reactions (high reactivity) can communicate more clearly what a person is feeling, but also can result in the person sometimes reacting too quickly, getting upset or even dysregulated before all the information has become available. This can sometimes be counterproductive, of course: if reactivity had been lower, the person's response might have been quite different and more productive.

Why would people ever think, when thinking deprives them of "the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved

Are you sulking now?" he asked. "Yes," she answered curtly. "OK.

Well," Skulduggery said. "That was rude.

You Englishmen,' said Herr Wurter. 'You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

First, understand how people behave; second, build products that match their habits.

Self-interest and rational calculation can thus look like common sense, but there are other ways of understanding human motivations.

Aristotle also felt strongly that virtue requires action; mere noble intentions are not enough.

Anger certainly seems to have an evolutionary basis. It serves a social purpose: displays of anger encourage others to change their behaviour and thus work to stop people transgressing societal rules that keep us cohabiting comfortably. If we neither felt nor exhibited annoyance, we would become 'slavish', in Aristotle's words, and an easy target for exploitation

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Animals can also be hypnotised. Flip a rabbit on its back, hold it firmly in position with its head back for a couple of minutes, and youll find it will become perfectly motionless and unresponsive, until you clap your hands loudly above its head.

Our tendency to think that we're not predictable is probably one of our more predictable traits.

Now you know that your headmistress, Miss Davis, was going to come in here and just check that you were all going to be well behaved. She cant do that because, as many of you probably know, she cant be here today, er, because her pants fell down earlier on. Its not funny. If any of you see her, dont make a fuss because its a bit embarrassing for her, OK? Alright? Its not funny.

I like my parrot, Figaro. Not in a wrong way I mean, yes, hell do anything for a mouth full of seed but nothing tacky.

All of us can be influenced through psychological techniques. For example, if I say dont think of a black cat what do you do? You think of a black cat because the command think of a black cat was there in the sentence. Techniques like this can be used to influence peoples thoughts, behaviour, even their memory.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years." The question still hangs heavy in the air: If our behavior is not making us happy, why do we act this way?

a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.