Quotes About Behavior

There goes that schema again!"—we can take steps to change what happens next.

The more often we repeat a mental pattern, the more likely it becomes in the future;

situation that is even vaguely reminiscent of those that created an emotional habit can act as a trigger.

schema responses are overreactions, not appropriate responses to difficult situations.

By mindfully monitoring your thoughts rather than letting them dictate how you behave, you will start to win emotional freedom from your fears.

The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)

Those who did that thing were human beings, na. We should ask ourselves why human beings behave in such a way. Otherwise nothing can change. (Mommy-Ji)

The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior," I said. "Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.

You learn far more about character from

The only people who come close to annoying me as much as left-laners are cart-hogs, shoppers who leave their carts in the middle of the aisle and wander a few feet away, where they stand with their mouths open staring stupefied at the shelves as if they've never seen food before. I

Experiments have determined that at the emotional level, we feel the pain of a $100 loss twice as much as we enjoy the benefit of a $100 gain. Consequently, many people once burned by a stock market loss vow to never invest in it again. As Mark Twain said, "A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again, but he will probably never sit on a cold one either.

Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends...

My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

Every decision you make contributes to your character and shapes the kind of person you are.

Pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that.

Minha mensagem para vocês é: finjam que têm livre-arbítrio. É essencial para vocês se comportarem como se suas decisões tivessem importância, mesmo sabendo que não têm. A realidade não importa: o que importa é a sua crença, porque acreditar nessa mentira é a única maneira de evitar o coma lúcido. A civilização depende agora da autoilusão. Talvez sempre tenha dependido.

In each case, I don't have to consciously memorize rules, and then apply them mechanically. I just perceive how the system behaves as a whole, as an entity. Of course, I'm aware of all the details and individual steps, but they require so little concentration that they almost feel intuitive.

A dog may understand dozens of commands, but it will never do anything but bark.

now lets me provoke precise reactions in others. With pheromones and muscle tension, I can cause another

Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.

My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief,

Stratton envisioned a day when the human species could survive as long as its own behavior allowed, when it could stand or fall based purely on its own actions, and not simply vanish once some predetermined life span had elapsed. Other species might bloom and wither like flowers over seasons of geologic time, but humans would endure for as long as they determined.

Their nonchalant cruelty, their instinctive ability to locate the weaknesses in a victim's emotional armor, the way their own friendships were reinforced by their sadism: he recognized these as examples of human behavior, not divine.