Quotes About Behavior

Play is fun, but is also meaningful and complex. The more intelligent the animal, the more it plays.

this behavior is actually a sign of secure attachment. When they are with strangers or day-care providers, securely attached children "save up" their bad feelings for when they reunite with their primary attachment figure. (Gee, thanks!)

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Some people see their spouses as separate from them,' Megan says. 'And some people see their spouses as an extension of them, and that informs their attitude and behavior.

Paths to crime are not neatly divided

You are a God Act like one!

Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior.

Thankfully, as you will see, the two facts that, (1) you are upset by your bad thoughts, and (2) that you have never acted on them, are sure signs that you will never act on them.

As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.

Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

The stinking rich are fucking cheap," Green said. "Which is how they stay rich and why they stink.

Hell, we were the ones who were attacked. She was in heat. Some women get drunk or high and all they want to do is fuck.

almost all people who hurt themselves on purpose do so at least in part to regulate their emotions.

Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.

We accept human nature as it is, then we base our system on it. Your system must accept that human nature is like that. You get the best out of people for society by incentives and disincentives. If you remove too much of their rewards from the top tier, they will migrate.

But there was a flip side to his fastidiousness. He saw that now. It was a nose-in-the-air way of moving through the world. In every smoothed wrinkle, every perfected motion, there was an air of moral judgment, though he didn't intend it. There were people, he implied, who lived sloppy lives, and then there were people like him. ~Gilley

People's inflated belief in the importance of personality traits and dispositions, together with their failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting behavior, has been termed the "fundamental attribution error

The presence of a salient social model appears to be a particularly potent channel factor in inducing people to engage in behavior that is socially desirable, that is, in facilitating the link between positive attitudes and positive actions. Effect sizes vary, but they are generally quite large both in absolute terms and relative to most people's intuitions

But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time — in our own lives. In other words, when we're judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.

Cruelty is not taught. It is as certain as a compass point. One can be instructed in the specifics of cruelty, like one can be taught to use a spoon, a knife, a fork, but even without these skills a man will still eat. The need is with us.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

p.35: Jerry Porras & James Collins. Las compañías más viejas, veteranas, no sólo pueden encontrar un lugar en la nueva economía sino que hasta pueden encabezarla, si han establecido una PODEROSA FILOSOFÍA CORPORATIVA basada en las historias y leyendas de la compañía, que se utilice para ACOSTUMBRAR A TODOS LOS EMPLEADOS A UN MODELO DE COMPORTAMIENTO acorde con esa filosofía.

He said they were afraid, and that fear makes stupid people do wicked things

She jus' goes 'round spittin' vinegar all the time. Makes me wonder what the good Lord'll say 'bout it, her supposin' to be one a' the church elders." "That's