Quotes About Behavior

So when an individual adheres to a market position despite the mounting losses, he is a crowd.

If you have ever had a position on and intended to do one thing but actually did something else, then you were a member of the psychological crowd and made a crowd trade—whether you knew it or not. Otherwise, you would have done what you originally intended.

Remember, it is not a function of a quantity of individuals that determines if a psychological crowd has formed. Rather, it is a function of the characteristics displayed. If a person is exhibiting these characteristics, then he is part of a psychological crowd and is making crowd trades.

Betting and gambling are suitable for discrete events but not for continuous processes. If you introduce the behavioral characteristics of betting or gambling into a continuous process, you are leaving yourself open to enormous losses.

TABLE 2.1 The Spectrum of Manic Symptoms

I just go through life not doing anything to anyone, wreaking havoc left and right.

We will become known for the good traits we consistently exhibit or the bad habits we allow to creep into our life.

We will all be known for a lifetime of polite, professional behavior or a few lapses in judgement and decorum.

But the way in which a wife speaks to her husband will decide if she has any influence with him and whether or not she will motivate positive behavior in him.

Don't focus primarily on your spouse; focus on yourself. You cannot change his or her behavior, but you can change your own behavior with God's help.

Make up your mind that you are not going to sin in response to anything your spouse says or does. In that way, your behavior can be used by God to help your spouse respect and trust you.

Humans are merely just animals Which are programmed to behave Appropriately according to their age

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

Your role is not to make your child happy every moment of the day regardless of the personal cost, but to raise her to be a thoughtful, kind, productive citizen of the world. Some people would beg to differ, but it's not a choice to discipline or not. Your child needs discipline, just like she needs food and water.

When he's very small, forget about minor misbehavior and focus on the big stuff.

Children who go undisciplined are often frightened, insecure, angry, confused, and unhappy.

I'm lying in my room listening to the birds outside. I used to think they sang because they were happy. But then I learned on a nature show they're really showing off. Trying to lure in some other bird so they can mate with it. Or let the other birds know not to get too close to their turf. I wish I never watched that show, because now all I think about is what those pretty sounds mean. And how they're not pretty at all.

What makes us human is so simple. What we choose to do with it is so complex.

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.

Doing is doing. Does it mean that it doesn't matter if it's magic or not, anything you do has power and consequences and affects other people?

Human nature is against it. People just tend to behave in certain ways because they are people. And

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?

It is what we do routinely, not what we do rarely, that delineates the character of a person.

Sensibility, in Austen's time, meant relying on one's feelings as a guide to behavior, as a guide to truth.