Quotes About Behavior

An idea leads to a thought. The repeated thought leads to a feeling and the feeling leads to a new decision and the decision leads to a new behavior and the new behavior leads to a new action thus new results. See

study by Phillippa Lally and her research team showed it takes 66 days to create a brand-new routine.

The best way to forever eliminate a habit is to slowly replace or "imprint" negative habits with healthier routines.

Step #1: Know the Difference between Bad Habits and Addictions

You perform every action for a specific reason, but rarely do you take the time to fully understand your behavior.

When people are being observed, they want to look good and perform well.

What you need (and what the following book provides) is a strategy for identifying your worst habits and learning how to overcome them.

Habits run our lives. Much of what you do is based on a habit you've developed at some point in your life. In fact, according to a 2006 study conducted at Duke University, over 40 percent of what you do on a daily basis is habitual. In other words, you often complete the same actions, in the same place and at the same time. 

Chaler, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls "learning behaviour," which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it.

Chalet, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls "learning behaviour," which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it.

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

All neuroses are merely adult forms of whining and pouting.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

Don't listen to what people say; watch what they do.

When people don't pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others'. This doesn't make them bad people; it just makes them human.

In the United States especially, politics and economics don't mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.

We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

Numerous studies have shown that online—and especially on smart phones—people no longer read linearly as they once did, nor do they read with nearly the same engagement.

As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.

Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.

It doesn't matter what's written on a coffee mug or on a 'culture' slide; what you do as a CEO, day in and day out, and how you behave will define your company's culture.