Quotes About Behavior

Colonel Woodcock obviously belonged to the 'stiff upper lip' school of army behaviour: after shouting at his wife to keep watching at the window, he got shot himself and staggered back into the bedroom, telling her, 'It's alright darling, they have only hit outlying portions of me.' Woodcock, in fact, had been hit four times - but he subsequently recovered.

Cynthia pinpointed Lennon's wayward behavior with his subliminal goals: "Ultimately, of course, it was John who broke up the Beatles, just as he had formed them in the first place. He had moved on in his life, not just from me but from Paul, the other person who was closest to him throughout the sixties.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things, and harder to be distracted by the wrong things.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere.

talking about the habit of constantly checking for updates on email/FB/Twitter, etc.) The check-in would eventually become a widespread attentional habit; ..... No other has compelled so many minds with such regularity - regularity that has the feel of a compulsion, of a mental itch constantly in need of being scratched.

Habit was stronger than emotion.

In his preaching, Christ condemned adulterous behavior, but otherwise said nothing in any of the four Gospels about whom you could love, or how you could love. He said nothing about sex between people of the same gender. He said nothing about the superiority of abstinence over experience, nothing about the who and how of coupling, the timing of when to have children and when to practice birth control, all the forbidden sex later codified in exhaustive detail by celibate men.

If you ran into an asshole in the morning you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

This is the best thing you're ever going to learn in SEAL training.' We were excited to learn what it was, and he told us that when you're a leader, people are going to mimic your behavior, at a minimum. . . . It's a guarantee. So here's the key piece of advice, this is all he said: 'Calm is contagious.

Kids don't do what you say. They do what they see. How you live your life is their example.

Aristotle had it right, but he was missing a number: "We are what we do repeatedly.

People are nicer than they look, but you have to go first. This made me think of a line from fictional character Raylan Givens in the TV series Justified: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. An explanation of scarcity for rich intellectuals, showing how poor people do stupid things for lack of money, while rich people do stupid things for lack of time.

The Power of Persuasion by Robert Levine. The

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis.

2. El 10 por ciento de la gente encontrará una manera de tomárselo todo como algo personal. Cuenta con ello y trátalo desde una perspectiva matemática.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Tracking anything is better than tracking nothing. If you are very overweight, very weak, very inflexible, or very anything negative, tracking even a mediocre variable will help you develop awareness that leads to the right behavioral changes. This underscores an encouraging lesson: you don't have to get it all right. You just have to be crystal clear on a few concepts.

We are what we do repeatedly.

Premack [a motivational system where a more-preferred activity can be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity] or a rewards system, but with

The Power of Persuasion, de Robert Levine.

2—10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. Expect it and treat it as math.