Quotes About Behavior

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious brain is one of the possible behaviours of a mechanical brain. Precisely so; and the decision between the possible behaviours is what we call volition.

No hay mujeres malas —dijo de pronto el Piloto—. Igual que no hay barcos malos... Son los hombres a bordo quienes los hacen de una manera o de otra.

El ser humano es bestia torpe a la que no mueven los buenos sentimientos, sino el látigo. Para

La palabrota que ensucia la lengua termina por ensuciar el espíritu. Quien habla como un patán, terminará por pensar como un patán y por obrar como un patán. Hay una estrecha e indisoluble relación entre la palabra, el pensamiento y la acción. No se puede pensar limpiamente, ni ejecutar con honradez, lo que se expresa en los peores términos soeces. Es la palabra lo que crea el clima del pensamiento y las condiciones de la acción".

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Therefore flee the company of childish people. Greet them, when you meet, with smiles That keep on terms of common courtesy, Without inviting intimate relations.

She ate with good manners, using the knife in the French way to push things onto her fork. She

Whatever good deeds have been done by me, those the people accept and those they follow. Therefore they have progressed and will continue to progress by being respectful to mother and father, respectful to elders, by courtesy to the aged and proper behavior towards Brahmans and ascetics, towards the poor and distressed, and even towards servants and employees.

The more i watched how boys and girls behaved, the more i read and the more i thought about it, the more convinced i became that this behavior could be traced directly back to the plantation, when slaves were encouraged to take the misery of their lives out on each other instead of on the master. The slavemasters taught us we were ugly, less than human, unintelligent, and many of us believed it. Black people became breeding animals: studs and mares.

Kahneman notes in his book on investor psychology, experience is not a very good teacher in investing and markets. 2 As human beings, we often extract the wrong lessons from past successes, don't learn enough from our failures, and sometimes delude ourselves into remembering things that never happened.

She used to be a schoolteacher, but she has no class now.

People act the way they do because they have learned to act that way.

Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.

Getting the right behaviors to occur at the right time in the right way and at the right frequency is what separates the successful strategies from the unsuccessful ones. Some

temperament as one's unique, God-given (inborn) style of behavior.

Our worldview dictates what we think and believe is true. We hold our beliefs at two levels. One is our operating beliefs. They are the beliefs that we act on. These beliefs affect and influence our values and overall behavior. Our theoretical beliefs are the beliefs that we hold at a theoretical level. They may or may not affect our lives. A church's doctrinal statement or creed would be one example of a theoretical belief.

Custom is second nature.

Family! Our families determine who we are, determine who we're not. All our relationships with everybody we ever meet for the rest of our lives is based on the way we relate to the members of our family. No wonder the world's so fucked up.

Is this world's worst reality more vicious than human behavior?

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.