Quotes About Behavior

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.

When I do something intelligently, i.e. thinking what I am doing, I am doing one thing and not two. My performance has a special procedure or manner, not special antecedents.

Lorsque la bêtise gifle l'intelligence, l'intelligence a le droit de se conduire bêtement.

silos are fundamentally a cultural phenomenon. They arise because social groups and organizations have particular conventions about how to classify the world.

he analyzed how a mundane action, such as deciding to order bouillabaisse in a restaurant (or not) creates social labels and markers that sort people into different groups.

The paradox of the modern age, I realized, is that we live in a world that is closely integrated in some ways, but fragmented in others. Shocks are increasingly contagious. But we continue to behave and think in tiny silos.

Cultural patterns in the media mattered too.

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

Lou Priolo defines manipulation as "an attempt to gain control of another individual or situation by inciting an emotional reaction rather than a biblical response from that individual

But don't make the mistake that so many parents make and allow your desire for changed behavior to replace your desire for a changed heart. If you can reach the heart, the behavior will take care of itself. Keep in mind that it is possible to cause your child to change his irritating behavior to that which is acceptable without an actual heart change taking place.

tácticas fundamentales y estratagemas (Cialdini, 1984, Watzlawick, 22012) que

Do as we say, and not as we do

a raiva é um dado estrutural. De acordo com os períodos, ela diminui ou aumenta, mas nunca desaparece. É uma das correntes de fundo que regem a sociedade. A questão não é portanto tentar combatê-la, mas somente geri-la:

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs," he said. "If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.

La verdadera medida del valor de una persona no es aquello en que dice que cree, sino lo que hace para defender esas creencias», dijo. «Si no actúas con arreglo a tus creencias, seguramente no son reales.»

people radically change their behavior when they know they are being watched. They will strive to do that which is expected of them. They want to avoid shame and condemnation. They do so by adhering tightly to accepted social practices, by staying within imposed boundaries, avoiding action that might be seen as deviant or abnormal.

British philosopher Jeremy Bentham's eighteenth-century conception of the Panopticon, a building design he believed would allow institutions to effectively control human behavior.

The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs," he said. "If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real." How

Similarly it is possible that the system itself is sick, even though the actors within the organization are behaving in accord with organizational etiquette and respecting the internal bonds of trust. That

Emphasizing that "people make decisions for emotional reasons not rational ones," the GCHQ contends that online behavior is driven by "mirroring" ("people copy each other while in social interaction with them"), "accommodation," and "mimicry" ("adoption of specific social traits by the communicator from the other participant"). The document then lays out what it calls the "Disruption Operational Playbook.

We shouldn't have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to feel safe from state surveillance. Nor should the price of immunity be refraining from controversial or provocative dissent. We shouldn't want a society where the message is conveyed that you will be left alone only if you mimic the accommodating behavior and conventional wisdom of an establishment columnist.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Always look at what people do, not who they are.