Quotes About Behavior

All people are innately good and forgiving but are situationally evil and relentless

No vice is more irksome than that of voicing one's virtues

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

This little story has its charm and doesn't really hurt anyone. What is frightening is the ability of fear to drive people off the course of human behavior.

Nature takes good care of her appearance. What makes nature ugly is the behavior of human beings.

What should a brand leader advertise? Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

He was a shitty husband, a cruel and distant father, and had absolutely no empathy for other human beings.

When we repress our desires, they do not disappear but stay beneath the surface and continue to exert their influence. Prohibition arouses desire and suggests stratagems for satisfying it.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

Like putting an Armani suit on Attila the Hun, interface design only tells how to dress up an existing behavior.

To deliver both power and pleasure to users, interaction designers think first conceptually, then in terms of behavior, and last in terms of interface.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even

Contentment is created when your behaviour is consistent with your values. When you act in ways that are consistent with the core of who you are, even when your actions aren't approved by others, you increase your overall contentment. Happiness, success, money, relationships, and even the approval of others will come and go in your life, but what is ultimately satisfying is feeling content.

When I explain to parents that the research shows clearly that a one-minute time-out is sufficient for changing behavior and that we gain nothing but problems with much longer durations,

When you are a happy person, you'll influence others to behave positively toward you.

The truth about resilience is that it's a learned behavior. If you gravitate toward hopelessness, it's not because you're hopeless, but because your brain has done it so many times before. If your mind naturally goes to despair, it's not because your situation is dire, but because you have developed strong neural pathways for despair.

Irrational exuberance

Purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs. Dee Hock, The Birth of the Chaordic Age The

Did nobody spank their children these days?

The commitment of marriage can frequently arouse some rather peculiar behaviour in men and women alike, but the bizarre notion that one can change the character of one's mate seems to occur more often to women than to men.

By the early fifth century the problem had become so acute that some theologians updated the church's theology of witness so that they no longer emphasized the Christians' exemplary behavior.

As Cyprian puts it near the start of his treatise, "We know virtues by their practice rather than through boasting of them."71 If patience is not good in the lived experience of humans, it isn't worth talking about.72

Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are salient. So, for example, the pay is salient, especially the starting pay.