Quotes About Behavior

Personne n'a le droit de nous juger avant la fin, parce que nous les hommes, on est capable du meilleur comme du pire

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

Si soffermò a riflettere sul proprio comportamento. A casa della vittima si entra in punta di piedi e scalzi, a casa della madre dell'eventuale aggressore si entra a passi pesanti. Ma chi è più vittima dell'altra, di queste due donne?

feet can tell you whether a person is interested or not; how the movement of the eyes can determine whether a person is a visual, kinesthetic, or auditory thinker; and how to determine if a person is lying. Let's

Understanding body language is especially important when starting a conversation with strangers. ?       Is it the right time to talk? ?       Does that person look relaxed? ?       Are his arms crossed in front of his body?

Our hands also say a lot about our disposition. If the arms of the person you're talking to are relaxed, then that's a positive sign. But if they are crossed, then it could mean that he is not into the conversation.

People who are conscious that they are lying may try to cover up their body language. They will do this by trying to maintaining eye contact. However, this may result in having too much eye contact, which does not look natural. Their body may become stiff instead of being relaxed. A stiff upper body will result because of this.

Test it out and see what happens. Most importantly, have fun with it!     Chapter 5: What Our Bodies Are Really Saying Talk is cheap. Actions

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." -Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Yet the evidence, from twin studies, from the children of immigrants and from adoption studies, is now staring us in the face: people get their personalities from their genes and from their peers, not from their parents.

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

homini lupus', said Plautus. 'Man is a wolf to man.

almost all biologists agreed that no creature could ever evolve the ability to help its species at the expense of itself. Only when the two interests coincided would it act selflessly.

Either human beings must be more instinctive, or animals must be more conscious than we had previously suspected. The similarities, not the differences, were what caught the attention.

Studies of criminal records of adoptees in Denmark revealed a strong correlation with the criminal record of the biological parent and a very small correlation with the criminal record of the adopting parent – and even that vanished when controlled for peer-group effects, whereby the adopting parents were found to live in more, or less, criminal neighbourhoods according to whether they themselves were criminals.

An extraordinarily nimble synthesist, Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences and even intelligence. More important, though, he addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability." —The New Yorker

Smith went one step further, and suggested that morality emerged unbidden and unplanned from a peculiar feature of human nature: sympathy.

The richer and more market-oriented societies have become, the nicer people have behaved.

So – as animal experiments have suggested – oxytocin does not affect reciprocity, just the tendency to take a social risk, to go out on a limb.

When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

Far from being choosy, female primates seemed to be initiators of much promiscuity. Hrdy began to suggest that there was something wrong with the theory rather than the females.

What if morality itself was not handed down from the Judeo-Christian God as a prescription? And was not even the imitation of a Platonic ideal, but was a spontaneous thing produced by social interaction among people seeking to find ways to get along?

if commercial behaviour might make people more moral.