Quotes About Behavior

Sen unutursun küçük adam ama büyük adam do?as? gere?i unutmaz. Sanma ki kin besler büyük adam, sanma ki öç al?r, yaln?zca neden böylesine baya?? davran??larda bulundu?unu çal???r.

The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.

Fast thinking includes both variants of intuitive thought—the expert and the heuristic

The best possible account of the data provides bad news: tired and hungry judges tend to fall back on the easier default position of denying requests for parole. Both fatigue and hunger probably play a role.

as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog.

You can see why the common admonition to "act calm and kind regardless of how you feel" is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and kind.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Bernoulli's model lacks the idea of a reference point, expected utility theory does not represent the obvious fact that the outcome that is good for Anthony is bad for Betty. His model could explain Anthony's risk aversion, but it cannot explain Betty's risk-seeking preference for the gamble, a behavior that is often observed in entrepreneurs and in generals when all their options are bad.

people form opinions and make choices that directly express their feelings and their basic tendency to approach or avoid, often without knowing that they are doing so. The

Decision makers tend to prefer the sure thing over the gamble (they are risk averse) when the outcomes are good. They tend to reject the sure thing and accept the gamble (they are risk seeking) when both outcomes are negative. These conclusions were well established for choices about gambles and sure things in the domain of money.

But we should not expect performance in officer training and in combat to be predictable from behavior on an obstacle field—behavior both on the test and in the real world is determined by many factors that are specific to the particular situation. Remove

It appears to be a feature of System 1 that cognitive ease is associated with good feelings.

These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster.

In another experiment in the series, participants were told that they would shortly have a get-acquainted conversation with another person and were asked to set up two chairs while the experimenter left to retrieve that person. Participants primed by money chose to stay much farther apart than their nonprimed peers (118 vs. 80 centimeters). Money-primed undergraduates also showed a greater preference for being alone.

I describe mental life by the metaphor of two agents, called System 1 and System 2, which respectively produce fast and slow thinking. I speak of the features of intuitive and deliberate thought as if they were traits and dispositions of two characters in your mind. In the picture that emerges from recent research, the intuitive System 1 is more influential than your experience tells you, and it is the secret author of many of the choices and judgments you make.