Quotes About Behavior

In the discharge of thy place, set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. And after a time, set before thee thine own example; and examine thyself strictly, whether thou didst not best at first. Neglect not also the examples, of those that have carried themselves ill, in the same place; not to set off thyself, by taxing their memory, but to direct thyself, what to avoid.

Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor, to obtain good customs.

Most men mostly imitate what they see, and catch the tone of what they hear, and so a settled type—a persistent character—is formed.

I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, 'Raphael thinks he's a real comedian.'

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

There are players like that - you know they have been rascals, and that you can bring them in, give them a new environment and get a length of time out of them, but they will always return to type. You can get something out of them, then you have to get rid of them.

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

What you get is what you see, which is suspending kids doesn't lead to high attrition rate. That is what the data shows.

A nudge is some feature of the environment that changes the behaviour of humans but would not change the behaviour of rational economic agents, what we call Econs.

Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.

Human emotion isn't neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable.

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

In the 1940s, economics started getting highly mathematical. It was basically because economists weren't smart enough to write down models of real behavior that they started writing down models of highly rational behavior - and they kind of forgot about humans.

My job is making irrational people do rational things.

I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service.

Don't rationalize or internalize abusive behavior, because love doesn't hurt.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity.