Quotes About Behavior

Lo que de los hombres se dice, verdadero o falso, ocupa tanto lugar en su destino, y sobre todo en su vida, como lo que hacen. El

Jamais entre os animais a criatura nascida para ser pomba converte-se em abutre. Isso só se vê entre os homens.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. My drill instructor used to say that all the time. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to. I

Girls," she whispered under her breath, wondering why it was that adolescent girls simply had to be mean to their mothers. Clearly it was normal behavior; she'd spent enough time with her friends and peers to know that. So normal it was probably part of evolution. Maybe the species needed girls who thought they were grown up at thirteen for some bizarre, hidden reason.

Aw. Men are stupid. You might as well learn that now. Look at bull moose. They ram into each other at full speed. Same with Dall sheep.

He was—as always—trapped by the flypaper of good manners.

Could they all be that evil? Or had they discovered a switch within themselves that allowed them to turn off their civility? Did they go home to their wives at night and simply flip the switches back on, become human once more?

Most important, through your mindfulness, you can break any chains of negative and abusive behavior that have been passed down through your relatives.

Of course, the ways we carry dysfunction through our family lineage are not so funny. To break the chain, I must pause to ask myself: What dysfunctional behaviors do I practice by habits that come from my own subconscious psychological patterning because of my upbringing? Emotional patterns and ways of being are handed down from generation to generation like family heirlooms—and while many may be positive, many can also be oppressive.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

By the time a critical situation is reached, people are so embedded in the kinds of thinking, values, and behavior that led to the critical point that nothing less than a heroic effort on the part of the population as a whole can sway the course of events.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

In short—to overstate the point only slightly—because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.

Morality, on the other hand, as Immanuel Kant insisted, is ultimately practical: though it matters morally what we think and feel, morality is, at its heart, about what we do.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Rigor is not an attribute of a text but rather a characteristic of our behavior with that text.

One of the unfortunate side effects of my medication is it hinders my ability to act crazy.

every human culture is created by fear

Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.

the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.

They were missing teeth and spitting tobacco juice right on the floor—and you should have seen the men!

The government thinks the psychologists can keep the population under control.

there are biddies, always biddies, everywhere in this world, who are more concerned with the morals of others than they are with their own. A