Quotes About Behavior

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Me – accused of being too nice. It boggles the mind.

Annabelle is pretending to play with her collection of tiny wooden dolls, but whenever Mum isn't looking, she throws one of them into the fire. I worry about that child. Father

There was a time when a young person rose when an adult entered the room, would not consider calling adults by their first names, and automatically came to the door to pick up a date. I am not nostalgic for this time. Socially acceptable behavior also included discrimination of every sort, sweeping family problems under the rug, and establishing household order through intimidation and submissive deference to Dad the All-Knowing Patriarch.

These images point to a very real and important truth: what women will and will not permit does have a profound way of influencing the behavior of an entire society.

a young man whose birth, wealth, and consequent leisure made many habits venial which under other circumstances would have been inexcusable.

Una de las grandes vergüenzas de la experiencia humana es que solo sabemos adoptar la conducta adecuada cuando ya es muy tarde.

What defines us isn't how we behave when things are good, Andrew, but how we respond when they aren't.

Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.

Fully 43 percent of the time, our actions are habitual, performed without conscious thought. We had provided the first scientific estimate of how often people act out of habit. It turned out to be a lot higher than science at the time had assumed.

Aristotle is reputed to have said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

They have a set pattern, and they follow it. They are not making decisions. Here's the very happy implication: the worst, most effortful run will be that first one. Or the second, perhaps. But effort doesn't last (in fact, if it does, you're doing it wrong). Habits will form and take the effort off your hands.

Self-control is simple when you understand that it involves putting yourself in the right situations to develop the right habits.

The good effects that we popularly ascribe to "self-control" are, it seems, more accurately captured by situational control.24 The studies and stories just cited established this mechanism, a mechanism that will undergird every part of habit formation.

What I began to realize was that habit refers to how you perform an action, not what the action is.

In psychology we have a name for the automatic scripts our brains piece together when we repeatedly do the same thing in the same way: procedural memory. It's such an important repository of information that only the most frequently repeated patterns get stored like this.

The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken. —Samuel Johnson

He called it the double law of habit.3 Basically it means this: repetition strengthens our tendency to act, but it also weakens our sensation of that act.

By separating habitual cues from conscious awareness, the study showed that we eat in response to available cues: as long as there's food on our plate, we keep going.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

Madness is always having the same result doing something different.

When all else fails, try passive-aggression.

A pattern, by its very nature , should repeat. It is your nature as well, to do as your mother did. As much as you hate it, as much as it grieves you.