Quotes About Behavior

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between what people say and what they do. People might tell you they are excited about your new product, but when they are in a buying situation their behaviour might be totally different.

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

At each moment, who we are and how we behave is a choice that we individually make. The challenges are real; the opportunities are incredible.

W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught that any time the majority of the people behave a particular way the majority of the time, the people are not the problem.

We become what we repeatedly do.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us. ENGLISH POET.

If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk.

Economics is the science that studies how people and societies make decisions that allow them to get the most out of their limited resources.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

This goes to prove yet again that few people stick to the articles of their characters, and will keep breaking away from them.

certain situations, even the most rationally minded people behave in absurd and illogical ways. Nine times out of ten, a person in possession of a remote control will press the buttons harder if the battery runs low. But a nickel cadmium cell isn't like a lemon, and squeezing it firmly won't produce more juice.

Unlike criticism, contempt is particularly toxic because it assumes a moral superiority in the speaker. Contempt is often directed at people who have been excluded from a group or declared unworthy of its benefits. Contempt is often used by governments to provide rhetorical cover for torture or abuse. Contempt is one of four behaviors that, statistically, can predict divorce in married couples. People who speak with contempt for one another will probably not remain united for long. The

We may think the following a prime example of a response to a stimulus: I clap my hands, and the cat shies away, hiding under the sofa. The following is just as good an example: I throw the cat into the fire, and she burns to ashes.' The first is a life-process: it is something that plays a certain role in a cat's life. The second is not: it is a purely physical process which the cat undergoes.

Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me to-day will have somebody to laugh at him to-morrow.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

What once were vices are manners now.

Este o veche frica fata de mul?ime, mai ales când emana frica ?i ca atare reac?iile ii devin imprevizibile.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

If there's no ethically correct solution, act irrationally.

I should like balls infinitely better," she replied, "if they were carried on in a different manner." "You should like balls infinitely better," said Darcy, "if you knew the first thing about them.

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.