Quotes About Behavior

B.F. Skinner, the world-famous psychologist, proved through his experiments that an animal rewarded for good behaviour will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behaviour. Later studies have shown that the same applies to humans. By criticising, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

certain we are that it is justified. When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Shakespeare said, "Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Harry A. Overstreet in his illuminating book Influencing Human Behavior said: "Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire … and the best piece of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Lincoln did not belong to any church, and avoided religious discussions even with his best friends. However, he once told Herndon that his religious code was like that of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he had heard speak at a church meeting, and who said: "When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

Esto es lo que hacía Schwab. Pero, ¿qué hace la persona común? Precisamente lo contrario. Si alguna cosa no le gusta, arma un escándalo; si le gusta, no dice nada.

William James tells us that we cannot instantly change our emotions just by making up our minds to-but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.

Når man har med mennesker at gøre, så husk, at det drejer sig om ikke logiske væsener.

This great contemporary psychologist has shown by experiments with animals and with humans that when criticism is minimized and praise emphasized, the good things people do will be reinforced and the poorer things will atrophy for lack of attention.

we cannot instantly change our emotions just by "making up our minds to" but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.

Cuando tratamos con personas, recordemos que no estamos tratando con criaturas lógicas. Estamos tratando con seres de emoción, seres humanos erizados de prejuicios, y motivados por el orgullo y la vanidad.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Jack kept refilling my mother's glass with the wine she'd brought. With each sip, she acted more and more like Marilyn Monroe. Grandma was so taken with her special meal, she seemed hardly to notice Ma's behavior. She even reluctantly accepted a glass of wine herself, and went so far as to wet her lips at the rim.

This minute that comes to me over the past Decillions. There is no better than it And now. What behaves well In the past or behaves well To-day is not such a wonder. The wonder is always and Always how there can be A mean man or an infidel.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Nature creates similarities. One need only think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man's. His gift in seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else. Perhaps there is none of his higher functions in which his memetic faculty does not play a decisive role.

Such an animal will swing indecisively from one worry to the next, giving a nip at each fear in turn, displaying the fickleness of despair.

Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else.

It is no contradiction to oppose the criminalization of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, etc., while at the same time declaring that such behavior is immoral and unethical.

I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.

He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature." It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.

wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. "The smell and behavior wasn't an issue with