Quotes About Behavior

The only way we can eradicate human behavior is to eradicate humans, and that strikes me as pretty extreme.

You're not gonna believe this, but generally speaking, good guys follow rules while bad guys don't.

Interpreting De Waal in religious terms, I would argue that morality does not amount to a codified set of behaviour dictated by a God 'out there', but is an instinctive response to 'that of God' (as the Quakers put it) within each of us.

Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. —Bill Raeder

Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment occurs, and wondrous things emerge. You become highly productive. You make things up, and you make them happen.

You may want to begin by asking yourself, "What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?" That will give you a good starting point for defining your standards.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.—Dee Hock

Sometimes, however, you may need greater rigor and focus to get a project or situation under control, to identify a solution, or to ensure that all the right steps have been determined. This is where vertical focus comes in. Knowing how to think productively in this more vertical way and how to integrate the results into your personal system is the second powerful behavior set needed for knowledge work.

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. —O. H. Mowrer

It takes more energy than most people realize to unhook out of one set of behaviors and get into another kind of rhythm and tool set.

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action.

What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

You need no new skills to increase your productivity—just a new set of behaviors about when and where to apply them.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the businesslike investor.

There's a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth

now. But I still act like a cop sometimes.

It doesn't take much for civilized people to become animals.

When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it. - John Puller

Q: Are you saying that thought has a kind of possessive quality which stays, gets stuck, and then becomes habitual? And we don't see this? Bohm: I think that whenever we repeat something it gradually becomes a habit, and we get less and less aware of it. If you brush your teeth every morning, you probably hardly notice how you're doing it. It just goes by itself. Our thought does the same thing, and so do our feelings. That's a key point.

It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal evolution. Darwin explains nature! He has more difficulty explaining us.

Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit of believing that generalizations have anything at all to do with individuals.

That's not how human psychology works. No, we tend to do lots of things without knowing why. We need excuses, though, so we rationalize! If an obvious reason for our behavior isn't readily available, we invent one, preferably one that helps us think better of ourselves.