Quotes About Behavior

we WEIRD ones typically practise what is known as 'strong reciprocity': we are conditional cooperators (tending to cooperate so long as others do too) but also altruistic punishers (ready to punish defectors and free riders even if it costs us personally). And it is the combination of these two traits that leads to the success of large-scale cooperation in society.

Nudge policies, in essence, can be used to encourage us to mimic the way that we would behave if we were as rational as economic man.

The pernicious effects of the self-interest theory have been most disturbing,' concludes Frank. 'By encouraging us to expect the worst in others, it brings out the worst in us: dreading the role of the chump, we are often loath to heed our nobler instincts.

I don't mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can't stomach moral indignation.

I think you're extremely rude! And you're doing it on purpose!" "Of course. One should never be rude except on purpose." …"Why?" …"Because one should never appear to anything without intent. It's the secret of poise.

Research shows that striving can become a bad habit.

Do not gossip with new coworkers, admit to any insecurities or concerns, complain to them, or solicit too much in the way of guidance (they will peg you as clueless), especially

They wanted to forget that there ever had been, in Europe, any other civilization at all. There was so much beauty they had not made, so many books they had not written, so many records of wars in which they had not fought, and so many ideas of human behavior which were anathema to them.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Personal charm is a great help. You can sit there and be an awful ass, but if you have personal charm, you can really put it over on the general public

I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

or with the nails, in the manner of dogs or cats, and not with a napkin, but with a toothpick of mastic wood, or with a feather, or with small bones taken from the drumsticks of cocks or hens." —Erasmus, "On Good Manners for Boys

Communication, according to Maturana, is not primarily a transmission of information, but rather a coordination of behavior between living organisms.

I ask you now, is any little thing like being damned eternally a satisfactory excuse for behaving like a complete rat?

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

Even his own wife, Cindy, balked when learning of his actions. "I've heard how he is at work, and I wouldn't want to be around that," she said. "If he treated me that way, or the kids, we wouldn't be married.

Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them." Marion