Quotes About Behavior

In 2009, for example, a team of scientists at MIT succeded in implanting a wireless electrode into a zebra fish. With the press of a button, the scientists could wirelessly transmit a signal to the song-producing region of the bird's brain. The bird instantly stopped singing.

If we have demonstrated such greed at the table of the body, imagine how we would have behaved at the table of spiritual things, if we had felt ourselves attracted by it.

non è il vestito bello che fa il signore, ma è piuttosto il vestito pulito.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Essentially stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour.

reasonable people have difficulty conceiving and understanding unreasonable behavior.

Most people do not act consistently. Under certain circumstances a given person acts intelligently and under different circumstances the same person will act helplessly. The only important exception to the rule is represented by the stupid people, who normally show a strong proclivity toward perfect consistency in all fields of human endeavors.

Most people do not act consistently.

che significa che siamo liberi di prendere delle decisioni, se il nostro comportamento non fa che seguire le leggi della natura?

what does it mean, our being free to make decisions, if our behavior does nothing but follow the predetermined laws of nature?

order to these baffling aspects of behavior in the atomic world, and to build from it a coherent theory. In 1925

In tutti i casi in cui non viene scambiato calore, infatti, oppure quando il calore scambiato è trascurabile, noi vediamo che il futuro si comporta esattamente come il passato.

Some behavior is more probable, other behavior more improbable.

Even if you lack social proof, if you have confidence and behave like you have social proof already, you are on the leading path to moving up your perceived value.

if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

What We Know Versus What We Do

Black respectability or "appropriate" behavior doesn't seem to matter. If anything, black achievement, black aspirations, and black success are construed as direct threats. Obama's presidency made that clear. Aspirations and the achievement of these aspirations provide no protection. Not even to the God-fearing. On

hopelessness can create an atmosphere where fixable problems become unfixable ones. We must work to resist this erosion in our belief in the potential of our own behavior and actions to change things.

Does Dashiell actually… do things, I mean, besides protecting you?" I looked down at my dog. The top of his head had been slimed by one of the other dogs. His big meaty mouth was agape and panting, a loop of drool draped delicately over his worm-colored lower lip. And he was covered in dirt. "You thought he was just a pretty face?

If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.

All kids misbehave. Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes. Does it become an occasion for judgement of their character or an occasion for teaching?

I said to David, "You know, in France, when they're nice to you, you feel like you've passed a test. But in Italy, there is no test.

The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on its owner the comforting delusion that he or she does not have any. In a sense, dissonance theory is a theory of blind spots—of how and why people unintentionally blind themselves so that they fail to notice vital events and information that might make them question their behavior or their convictions.

The manual is written in an authoritative tone as if it were the voice of God revealing indisputable truths, but in fact it fails to teach its readers a core principle of scientific thinking: the importance of examining and ruling out other possible explanations for a person's behavior before deciding which one is the most likely.