Quotes About Behavior

A computer study of the frequency of the word "duty" in British and American books showed its frequency had shrunk to one-third of its frequency in earlier times.124 Shame is another of the concepts that seems to have faded, as shameless behavior has flourished, and has even been celebrated as "liberation" in some quarters.

Los economistas han entendido durante siglos que cuando los precios están altos, las personas tienden a comprar menos que cuando los precios están bajos. Sin embargo, incluso hoy, muchos no entienden las múltiples implicaciones de ese simple hecho.

Widespread personification of "society" is another verbal tactic that evades issues of individual responsibility. Such use of the term "society" is a more sophisticated version of the notion that "the devil made me do it." Like much of the rest of the special vocabulary of the anointed, it is used as a magic word to make choice, behavior, and performance vanish into thin

When and why do we attribute a person's behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so? Briefly, the answer is that we often attribute bad behavior to disease (to excuse the agent);never attribute good behavior to disease (lest we deprive the agent of credit); and typically attribute good behavior to free will and insist bad behavior called mental illness is a no fault act of nature.

Institutions, no less than persons, may need to be socialized.

Once a person has made some sort of stable, symbolic connection between two things, the connection will influence his subsequent behavior and will generate its own 'proof.' This is why it is idle and foolish to try to 'refute' religious, political, and similar beliefs with empirical arguments about referents that are symbols to the believer but not to the non-believer.

Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

The fact that atomic energy is used in warfare does not make international conflicts problems in physics; likewise, the fact that the brain is used in human behavior does not make moral and personal conflicts problems in medicine.

Ä°nsan "bilimleri" fizik bilimlerinden sadece farkl? deÄŸil, birçok bak?mdan onlar?n z?dd?d?r. DoÄŸa ne yalan ne doÄŸru söyler, oysa insanlar al??kanl?klar? üzere ikisini de yapar.

T?bbîleÅŸtirme sekülerleÅŸtirmenin bir yan?d?r, terapötik devlet (t?p ile devletin ittifak?) teolojik devletin (kilise ile devletin ittifak?) yerini al?r. Geleneksel olarak, günah diye s?n?fland?r?lan belli davran??lar hastal?k ÅŸeklinde yeniden tan?mlan?r, böylece bunlar?n zor yoluyla "tedavi"leri gerekçe bulur.

What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. ... Such a rule ... draws lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of a man's particular daily behaviors ... where they intersect will be the height or depth of his character.

We all look with distaste on people who arrogantly pretend to a reputation to which they are not entitled; but equally to be condemned are those who, through lack of moral fibre, fail to live up to the reputation which is theirs already.

it is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well and look up to those who make no concessions.

for it is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well and look up to those who make no concessions.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.

I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.

Perilaku kita yang rasional sering kali menjadi senjata makan tuan secara sosial. Tetapi perilaku kita yang rasional juga menghasilkan keajaiban

Switching costs can be psychological, too – a result of brand loyalty.

isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

La economía tiene que ver con la decisión de Yang Li.

Efek kepemilikan itu tidak rasional, dan itu nyata-tetapi tidak mempengaruhi orang-orang yang berpengalaman dalam situasi-situasi realistis.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.