Quotes About Behavior

In most groups the craziest person is in control. It starts because no one wants the problems that come from pissing off a crazy person. It's just smarter and easier sometimes to let the crazy person have his or her way. Crazy

Asshole behaviors: Changing the subject to him/herself Dominating conversation Bragging Cheating, lying Disagreeing with any suggestion, no matter how trivial Using honesty as a justification for cruelty Withholding simple favors out of some warped sense of social justice Abandoning the rules of civil behavior, such as saying hello or making eye contact

Persuasion is effective even when the subject recognizes the technique. Everyone knows that stores list prices at $9.99 because $10.00 sounds like too much. It still works.

descriptive ethics is a sociological discipline that attempts to describe the morals of a particular society, often by studying other cultures.

normative ethics refers to the discipline that produces moral norms or rules as its end product.

aretaic ethics is a category of ethics that focuses on the virtues produced in individuals, not the morality of specific acts.

You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.

That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Actuar es fácil, pensar es difícil; actuar según se piensa es aún más difícil

Children don't know why they want what they want, teachers and judges are unanimous. But that adults, just like children, tumble about in the world without knowing where they come from and where they're going – that they act in accordance with their avowed aims as little as children do – that they can be ruled by cookies and cakes and lashes just as easily as children – this no one wants to believe, though it seems to me so palpably true.

Nadie sabe lo que hace mientras actúa correctamente, pero de lo que está mal uno siempre es consciente.

Das Leben eines Menschen ist sein Charakter

Quando si vive con persone che hanno una delicata sensibilità per la convenienza, abbiamo paura per loro se incontrano qualcosa di sconveniente.

No one is going to know about this, or should I be more explicit?" "Yes," she replied sharply. "I am brilliantly cunning and stupidly dense at the same time.Do continue treating me like a child." "Your sarcasm is uncalled-for." "I disagree.Actually,I will probably disagree with you henceforth whether I agree with you or not! I can behave like a child if you insist on treating me like one.

And here I thought you were actually going to behave yourself," he said. "It's going to get worse if they don't keep their hands off you." "I suppose you're going to tell me now that only you have the right to touch me." "I see we understand each other.

The most effective self-control is not through willpower and exerting effort to stifle impulses and unwanted behaviors. It comes from effectively harnessing the unconscious powers of the mind to much more easily do the self-control for you.

We become what we become not only through our DNA or only through our environment, but through their interaction.

On any given day, how much of what we say, feel, and do is under our conscious control? More important, how much is not? And most crucial of all: If we understood how our unconscious worked—if we knew why we do what we do—could we finally, fundamentally know ourselves? Could insights into our hidden drivers unlock different ways of thinking, feeling, and acting? What might this mean for our lives?

los impulsos que motivan muchas de nuestras conductas diarias se originan en procesos mentales de los que no somos conscientes, por más que luego podamos comprenderlos con gran rapidez.

Virtue is not always amiable.

True friends influence the moral conduct of their friends.

Principle 2: Use Existing Habits to Build New Ones