Quotes About Behavior

Crazy people do crazy things.

many societies, of course, ours was founded on fearful superstition, and this is always reason enough for any kind of behavior. She

Habits are learned. Choose them wisely.

Habits and practice are very interrelated. What we practice will become a habit.

One study states that repeating a particular motion sixty times a day over twenty-one days will form a new habit that will become ingrained in your mind.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

why do men continue to practice in themselves, the absurdities they despise in others? Thomas Paine, The rights of man: being an answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution (2nd edn, Philadelphia, 1791), p. 41.

Alcohol makes you less inhibited.' I said, 'I'm not inhibited, I just don't like you enough to want to do anything with you.' I guess alcohol makes you more honest too.

Another problem doubtlessly lies in the feudal, reactionary, and passive attitude of many men who by their behavior continue to hold things back. They have no intention of jeopardizing the total control they have over women, either at home or in society in general. In the battle to build a new society, which is a revolutionary battle, the conduct of these men places them on the side of reaction and counterrevolution. For the revolution cannot triumph without the genuine emancipation of women.

Group eating was scarcely less embarrassing than bodily functions

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds

It seems to me that-at least in our scientific theories of behavior-we have failed to accept the simple fact that human relations are inherently fraught with difficulties and that to make them even relatively harmonious requires much patience and hard work.

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

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

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

Adults who believe in the Little Adult Assumption are going to rely heavily on words and reasons in trying to change the behavior of young kids. And words and reasons are going to be miserable failures much of the time.

Si tiene un niño que está haciendo algo que no le gusta a Ud., y Ud. se molesta con frecuencia, claro, el niño lo repitirá.

The point behind 1-2-3 Magic is that parents are ready for anything, rather than worrying what the kids are going to do next. The message is: "I love you, and it's my job to train and discipline you. I don't expect you to be perfect, and when you act up, this is what I will do.

effective parents expect their children to rise to life's challenges (as you know, there are plenty!) and to respect the rules and limits that will be required for their behavior. These