Quotes About Behavior

Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with mean mind

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

Because it is such a powerful force in the world today, the Western Judeo-Christian tradition is often accepted as the arbiter of 'natural' behavior of humans. If Europeans and their descendant nations of North America accept something as normal, then anything different is seen as abnormal. Such a view ignores the great diversity of human experience.

We are unsettled to the very roots of our being. There isn't a human relation, whether of parent and child, husband and wife, worker and employer, that doesn't move in a strange direction. We don't know how to behave when personal contact and eternal authority have disappeared. There are no precedents to guide us, no wisdom that wasn't made for a simpler age. We have changed our environment faster than we can change ourselves.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

La filosofía antiemoción sigue vigente en infinidad de lugares y subculturas

Tal como nos enseña la naturaleza, cuando una persona se comporta sumisamente, realmente está intentando apaciguar a alguien que se percibe como amenazante (depredador) o reconociendo su superioridad.

te brindan la oportunidad de comportarte de manera diferente ante distintas situaciones y funcionan como un impulso que te guían hacia tus metas.

Si no es dañino para ti ni para otros, puedes hacer lo que quieras.»

Desde un punto de vista psicosocial, vivimos en una sociedad coadicta a los desmanes del amor.

el comportamiento asertivo conlleva un costo social: la gente sincera incomoda

La conducta asertiva no necesariamente debe generar un cambio en los demás, aunque a veces lo logra.

La asertividad siempre implica algún costo social.

Este impulso a investigar que mueve a los individuos, ayuda a que el sistema conductual heredado se enriquezca y aumente el repertorio de recursos para afrontar peligros y preverlos. Es una forma de autoestimulación que desarrolla más  sustancia blanca del cerebro (mielinización) para que podamos aprender más y mejor. Explorar es curiosear y la curiosidad es uno de los factores que ha permitido la evolución y mantenimiento de la vida en el planeta.

La prudencia es la carta de presentación de las personas tipo C. Ellas se vanaglorian de poseer el valor de la discreción en grado superlativo. Dicen exactamente lo que los demás esperan que digan, y se comportan como se espera que lo hagan. Hacen gala de una diplomacia digna de los mejores embajadores.

Las investigaciones muestran que los síntomas psiquiátricos de los adolescentes adictos a internet son muy parecidos a los de los jóvenes que sufren de abuso de sustancias químicas.

No te sientas "mala" o "malo" por actuar de manera coherente con lo que piensas y sientes.

El amor se mide por los hechos.