Quotes About Behavior

In recent years, the critics of the West have marked themselves out through a set of extraordinary claims. Their technique now has a pattern. It is to zoom in on Western behavior, remove it from the context of the time, set aside any non-Western parallels, and then exaggerate what the West actually did.

At the heart of which attitude lies the strange retributive instinct of our time towards the past which suggests that we know ourselves to be better than people in history because we know how they behaved and we know that we would have behaved better. There is a gigantic modern fallacy at work here.

It began to behave – in victory – as its opponents once did. When the boot was on the other foot something ugly happened.

Instead of carrying out their jobs without fear or favour, police, prosecutors and journalists behaved as though their job was to mediate between the public and the facts.

The manner in which people and movements behave at the point of victory can be the most revealing thing about them.

But further research has suggested that after people have gained power, they tend to behave like patients with damage to the brain's orbitofrontal lobes. That is, the experience of wealth and power is akin to removing the part of the brain "critical to empathy and socially appropriate behavior.

Depending on how we handle them, feelings can lead to great trouble. But the feelings themselves just are. In that sense, feelings are like arms or legs. If you hit or kick someone, then your arms or legs are causing trouble. But there's nothing inherently wrong with arms or legs. The same with feelings.

The truth is, intentions are invisible. We assume them from other people's behavior. In other words, we make them up, we invent them. But

Telling someone to change makes it less rather than more likely that they will.

Simply by changing your own behavior, you gain at least some influence over the problem.

We Ignore the Complexity of Human Motivations

If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value

Two good indicators of revealed preferences are things the people tend to value a lot: time and money. If you look at how they spend their time and how they spend their money, you can infer quite a lot about their real preferences.

Sins are like grapes; they come in bunches.

humanity is what it is in the recesses of our hearts, and it is what it is in the public square.

Offensive Takeaway Point: We should look for a way to stop responding to initiatives of the adversary and start behaving in such a way that they have to figure out how to respond to us. Take the initiative.

Educators by the same token must cast their teaching in behavior rather than feelings toward their students.

Puede haber una gran disparidad entre lo que decimos que queremos y lo que realmente hacemos para lograr eso que queremos.

What would you do if your cat suddenly went psycho and started to attack you for no apparent reason, lying in wait and pouncing or stalking you with a faraway look reminiscent of its predatory cousins and ancestors?

We teach people how to treat us

It's worth repeating that worry provides no known benefit and cannot change what will happen tomorrow - but it can weaken your faith, cripple your actions, destroy your inner peace of mind and make you feel powerless.

Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that's because he's a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl.

Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books.

we routinely explain social trends in terms of what society "is ready for." But the only way we know society is ready for something is because it happened. Thus, in effect, all we are really saying is that "X happened because that's what people wanted; and we know that X is what they wanted because X is what happened."5