Quotes About Behavior

El mensaje de Nervo es simple: si siembras un pensamiento negativo, cosecharás un pobre hábito. Siembra un pobre hábito y, en el mejor de los casos, cosecharás un futuro incierto.

She told him to think of his mind as a Worry Wheel with three parts—an anxious mind, anxious body, and anxious actions. She said an anxious mind got the Worry Wheel spinning, and an anxious body kept it going until anxious actions made it spin out of control.

economists recognize that, other things equal, cuts in tax rates reduce tax revenues in percentage terms by less than the tax-rate reductions. Similarly, tax-rate increases do not raise tax revenues by as much in percentage terms as the tax-rate increases. This is true because changes in marginal tax rates alter taxpayer behavior and thus affect taxable income.

Rewarding user behavior with increases in supply (inflationary rewards) has become a common practice to encourage actions such as supplying liquidity or using a particular platform. Consequently, many users engage in yield farming, taking actions to seek the highest possible rewards.

When emotions are expressed...all systems are united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.

She has, however, noticed one important difference between crows and us: their families are generally more peaceful than ours sometimes are. No matter what the provocation, family members usually work out their differences without violence or any other signs of overt aggression.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

Rudimac always peed in our shoes.

Las personas son tan imprevisibles que en ocasiones incluso a mí se me hace difícil manipularlas. A veces conviene dejarles algo de libertad para que actúen según su lamentable criterio. Con un poco de suerte, acaban empeorando bastante las cosas.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

You cannot turn a decent man into a violent one by being momentarily rude, but you can present yourself as an ideal target by appearing too timid.

Though we live in space-age times, we still have stone-age minds. We are competitive and territorial and violent

In fact, if perceived as a rude woman, you are far less attractive a target than a polite one.

So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.

I don't believe in such a thing as the criminal mind. Everyone's mind is criminal, we're all capable of criminal fantasies and thoughts." - Karl Menninger

People can be very motivated to become very control experts because an inability to predict behavior is absolutely intolerable for human beings and every other social animal. The fact that most people act predictably is literally is what holds human societies together.

There's a story about David Mamet, a pure genius of human behavior. When told about the complaints of two famous cast members in one of his plays, he joked "If they didn't want to be stars, they shouldn't have had those awful childhoods." It's not an original revelation that some who have weathered great challenges when they were young, created great things as adults...People with the most secret childhoods can make the most public contributions.

If we studied any other creature in nature and found the record of intra-species violence that human beings have, we would be repulsed by it. We'd view it as a great perversion of natural law—but we wouldn't deny it.

Though we want to believe that violence is a matter of cause and effect, it is actually a process, a chain in which the violent outcome is only one link. The

It's important to clarify that forced teaming, too many details, charm, niceness, typecasting and loan sharking are all in daily use by people who have no sinister intent. You might have already recognized several of these strategies as those commonly used by men who want little more than an opportunity to engage a woman in conversation.

When you try to manage or reason with such a person, you find that he is not reacting to what you say but rather to what he expects you to say; he is reacting to his script.

The truth is that every thought is preceded by a perception, every impulse is preceded by a thought, every action is preceded by an impulse, and man is not so private a being that his behavior is unseen, his patterns undetectable.