Quotes About Behavior

Mr. Wiggles seems taken with you." "It tried to urinate on me the other day. I prefer not to be 'taken' by something like that.

Sometimes the measure of a person can only be gleaned through his interactions with others.

Part of being grown up is acting the way you're supposed to act, even if you don't feel like it. Can you be grown up for me?

We learned our lessons well, and now we have the opportunity to break the intergenerational chain of workaholism. We have a chance to be different. We have choices. LET ME NOTICE today how many times I use work as an excuse for my inhuman behavior.

influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends' friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think—but further connections will not.

But what can I do? I can—she leapt into the abyss—join a ladies' club. There! That's respectable! That's something I can do! I can be ladylike. Why, I can be more ladylike than anyone, as long as I can keep myself from saying the first thing that pops into my mind.

Thought creates character.

Quitting is hard, too hard to do entirely on our own. We as individuals are riddled by the host of biases, like the sunk cost fallacy, endowment effect, status quo bias, and loss aversion, which lead to escalation of commitment. Our identities are entwined in the things that we're doing. Our instinct is to want to protect that identity, making us stick to things even more.

And the effect is stronger the more the ticket costs. Imagine if, instead of $95, you had spent $150 or $250 or $500. As the price tag grows, so does the effect of sunk costs.

The endowment and sunk cost effects live together in a way that amplifies escalation of commitment. Status quo bias adds to the mix of cognitive forces gaffing the scale.

Charles Duhigg, in The Power of Habit, offers the golden rule of habit change—that the best way to deal with a habit is to respect the habit loop: "To change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

This phenomenon is known as omission-commission bias.

The predictable pattern of blaming the bad stuff on the world and taking credit for the good stuff is by no means limited to poker or car accidents. It's everywhere.

There is a rich universe of science studying the human tendency to persevere too long, particularly in the face of bad news.

They point to numerous negative consequences of goal setting, several of which interfere with rational quitting behavior. In particular, they note the pass-fail nature of goals, their inflexibility, and how pursuing them leads to ignoring other opportunities that might be available.

When we're choosing among new options, loss aversion causes us to favor the ones that have the lowest absolute loss associated with them, even if those options come at a lower expected value. In other words, our aversion to taking a loss causes us to make decisions a rational actor would not.

The challenge is not to change the way our brains operate but to figure out how to work within the limitations of the brains we already have. Being aware of our irrational behavior and wanting to change is not enough, in the same way that knowing that you are looking at a visual illusion is not enough to make the illusion go away.

Most of what we do daily exists in automatic processing. We have habits and defaults that we rarely examine, from gripping a pencil to swerving to avoid an auto accident. The challenge is not to change the way our brains operate but to figure out how to work within the limitations of the brains we already have.

Aujourd'hui, je sens réellement le temps reculer vers la réception de demain, c'est-à-dire m'emporter vers la vérité, que je lirai dans ses paroles et son comportement, sans que je puisse résister.

Devant les personnes qu'il jugait importantes, il avait une raideur timide, ne posant jamais aucune question. Bref, se comportant avec intelligence. Celle-ci consistait à percevoir notre infériorité et à la refuser en la cachant du mieux possible.

When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind uses the world," psychologist Barbara Tversky has observed.

The good news: research shows that offering simple instructions to parents leads them to gesture more often; in turn, their children also gesture more.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf,

We teach others how to treat us.