Quotes About Behavior

Nature and nurture are inextricable; only scientists and psychologists could think otherwise, and we know all about them, don't we? --We should. We've watched them since they were tribal wizards, yelping around the campfire. ...

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

And we might have been less bullying out-of-doors if he had been less bullying indoors.

Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

Leadership's a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave.

your daily behavior is always a function of your deepest beliefs

It is important to remember that just as our words are our thoughts verbalized, so our deeds are our beliefs actualized.

Act in a way that is congruent with your true character.

Every time you fail to do the right thing, you fuel the habit of doing the wrong thing. Every time you do not tell the truth, you feed the habit of being untruthful.

Your self-image is a governor of sorts. It will never let you act in a way that is inconsistent with it.

It's easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than to think yourself into a new way of acting.

Leadership has nothing to do with what you get or where you sit. Leadership's a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave

habits take around nine weeks to implement

The actions you take come together to form your habits, and, this is important, your habits lead you to your destiny.

what makes the best the best is not their genetics but their habits.

Let go of the destructive habit of breaking the commitments you make to yourself. Failing to keep self-promises is one of the reasons so many of us don't love ourselves. Not following through on what we tell ourselves we'll do so destroys our sense of personal worth and dissolves our self-esteem. Keep behaving like that and the unconscious part of you will begin to believe you're not worth anything.

El liderazgo no tiene nada que ver con las ventajas materiales. El liderazgo tiene que ver con la excelencia de tu trabajo y de tu comportamiento.

A baby could be trained to view a glorious sunny day as depressing. A child could be trained to see a puppy as a vicious animal. An adult could be trained to see a drug as a pleasant vehicle for release. It's all a matter of conditioning, isn't it?

Human beings are hardwired to act in alignment with our self-identity

pero ten por seguro que podemos controlar nuestra actitud hacia esos hechos.

los mejores no son los mejores debido a la genética, sino a sus hábitos.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

The first step to eliminating a negative habit is to become aware of it.