Quotes About Behavior

paradigms from which my behavior and attitude flow are congruent with my deepest values and in harmony with correct principles. It also means to begin each day with those values firmly in mind. Then as the vicissitudes, as the challenges come, I can make my decisions based on those values. I can act with integrity. I don't have to react to the emotion, the circumstance. I can be truly proactive, value driven, because my values are clear.

we want to make small changes, we can work on changing our behavior but if we want to make significant quantum changes, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

The principles you live by create the world you live in.

The point is, you'd still be lost. The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.

It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

human behavior, in human relationships. They, too, are natural systems based on the law of the harvest.

Somos lo que hacemos día a día. De modo que la excelencia no es un acto, sino un hábito.

Integrity also means avoiding any communication that is deceptive, full of guile, or beneath the dignity of people. "A lie is any communication with intent to deceive," according to one definition of the word. Whether we communicate with words or behavior, if we have integrity, our intent cannot be to deceive.

Sow a thought, reap an action;

Reactive people build their emotional lives around the behavior of others, empowering the weaknesses of other people to control them.

The same is true with parenting. If you want to raise responsible, self-disciplined children, you have to keep that end clearly in mind as you interact with your children on a daily basis. You can't behave toward them in ways that undermine their self-discipline or self-esteem.

Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

DIRECT, INDIRECT, AND NO CONTROL The problems we face fall in one of three areas: direct control (problems involving our own behavior); indirect control (problems involving other people's behavior); or no control (problems we can do nothing about, such as our past or situational realities). The proactive approach puts the first step in the solution of all three kinds of problems within our present Circle of Influence.

We project our intentions on the behavior of others.

It means to be responsible for my own first creation, to rescript myself so that the paradigms from which my behavior and attitude flow are congruent with my deepest values and in harmony with correct principles.

Solo podemos lograr una mejora considerable en nuestra vida cuando dejamos de cortar las hojas de la actitud y la conducta y trabajamos sobre la raíz, sobre los paradigmas de los que fluyen la actitud y la conducta.

We have conscience—a deep inner awareness of right and wrong, of the principles that govern our behavior, and a sense of the degree to which our thoughts and actions are in harmony with them. And we have independent will—the ability to act based on our self-awareness, free of all other influences.

Un serio problema del lenguaje reactivo es que se convierte en una profecía de autocumplimiento.

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes. Habits are powerful factors

Writing or reviewing a mission statement changes you because it forces you to think through your priorities deeply, carefully, and to align your behavior with your beliefs. As you do, other people begin to sense that you're not being driven by everything that happens to you. You have a sense of mission about what you're trying to do and you are excited about it.3

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences. We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so, we choose the attendant consequence. "When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

I became particularly interested in how perceptions are formed, how they govern the way we see, and how the way we see governs how we behave. This led me to a study of expectancy theory and self-fulfilling prophecies or the "Pygmalion effect," and to a realization of how deeply imbedded our perceptions are. It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.