Quotes About Behavior

Parents are responsible for 40 to 50 percent of a child's habits. Children are greatly influenced, not just by their parents' efforts at persuasion, but also by their behavior.

Your attitude toward time, your "time horizon," has an enormous impact on your behavior and your choices.

Thinking continually about the potential consequences of your choices, decisions, and behaviors is one of the very best ways to determine your true priorities in your work and personal life.

Self-discipline can also be defined as self-control. Your ability to control yourself and your actions, control what you say and do, and ensure that your behaviors are consistent with your long-term goals and objectives is the mark of the superior person.

Most managers have never been trained in delegation, and anytime you adopt any new behavior, you will feel awkward at first. However, the more you practice delegation, the easier it becomes.

Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behavior. Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the future. Your self-image, the way you see yourself on the inside, largely determines your performance on the outside. All improvement in your outer life begins with improvements in your mental pictures, on the inside.

Las actividades con una C son agradables de hacer, pero no tienen consecuencias, ni positivas ni negativas.

Thinking continually about the potential consequences of your choices, decisions and behaviors is one of the very best ways to determine you true priorities in your work and personal life.

Your self-image, largely determines your performance on the outside. Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behavior.

Influencia, Robert Cialdini

The Law of Reversibility in psychology and metaphysics says, "You are more likely to act yourself into feeling a particular way than you are to feel yourself into acting.

to develop a quality that you lack, act as if you already had that quality in every situation where it is called for." In modern terms, however, we say, "Fake it until you make it.

There's only one thing that's strong enough to defeat the tyranny of the moment. Habit.

In one study, people who listened to a lunchtime radio mystery show ate 15 percent more than those who didn't. The basic rule: distractions of all kinds make us eat, forget how much we eat, and extend how long we eat—even when we're not hungry.

People eat more when you give them a bigger container. Period.

As long as we believe it is food that causes us to overeat, we are lost. Television, friends, and weather seem pretty unrelated to what we eat. That's why they have such a powerful effect on us.

People were almost twice as likely to reach for a comfort food when they were happy than when they were sad.

It's about as close to an established fact as things get in the social sciences: People who watch a lot of TV are more likely to be overweight than people who don't.

Even though I was appointed by the White House to be executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's agency in charge of the 2010 United States Dietary Guidelines, and even though I am a past president of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, I still don't think most nutrition education is very effective. People know that an apple is better for them than a Snickers bar, but . . . they eat the Snickers bar anyway.

Yet the heavier a person was—American or French—the more they relied on external cues to tell them when to stop eating and the less they relied on whether they felt full.13

Secretaries who had been given candies in clear desktop dishes were caught with their hands in the candy dish 71 percent more often (7.7 versus 4.6 times) as those given white dishes. Every day that dish was on their desk they ate 77 more calories. Over a year, that candy dish would have added over five pounds of extra weight. What is a little bit scary is that none of them would have probably known where those pounds came from.

There's only one thing that's strong enough to defeat the tyranny of the moment. Habit.

Hearing can't dares a person to find a workaround. It's a basic psychological theory called reactance - telling someone no just makes them want it more.

The beauty of impulse eating may be that you end up eating less—when you do eat—than someone who has been thinking about the food for hours. The more you think of something, the more of it you'll eat.5