Quotes About Behavior

Rehearsals become patterns of behavior more easily if you don't think but just move from one action to the next. The power of the rehearsal is that you have formatted your brain for a series of actions so that you don't have to think as you move from one action to the next. As you repeat the pattern, revising it for real life, you become what you want to be.

After all, behavior is the ultimate determiner of survival.

Thus, no matter how cleverly a computer is designed to simulate intelligence by producing the same behavior as a human, it has

As inspired by Alan Turing, intelligence equals behavior.

We demonstrate human intelligence through our speech, writing, and actions, right? Yes, but only to a point. Intelligence is something that is happening in your head. Behavior is an optional ingredient. This is not intuitively obvious, but it's not hard to understand either.

you can't use logic on human behavior.

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.

getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

And once again, I realized that it spoke the truth. I was hungry. Very hungry, in fact. I am blessed with a total lack of conscience, but my keen sense of hunger takes its place quite ably and keeps my feet on the proper trail. And with a jolt of guilt that very nearly approached panic, I realized I'd had no dinner. What had I been thinking? There was no excuse for such rash and careless behavior. Shame on Dexter.

In any case, I had no time to waste on deciphering human behavior. "Thank you very much," I said as I tried to undrape Camilla without causing any serious injuries to either of us. She had locked her hands around my neck and I pried at them, but she clung like a barnacle.

A school yard full of unruly school children in which children don't always understand the consequences of what they do. -US Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, on international relations

Parents know all about the verses related to how children should behave but not so much about those that remind them about how they should behave.

Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians.

if you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

A police uniform, he was warned by the commander on his first day on parade, could change a person's personality, and not always for the better.

At least it taught me a simple lesson: if you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Your child acts this way because she doesn't know how else to handle her difficult thoughts and feelings.

dds are you've picked up this book because you're fed up with your child's distracted behavior. You're tired of the missed homework

But passively waiting for your child to outgrow his defiant behavior will just make the problem worse and not solve it. It's our job as parents to help our children learn appropriate behavior, not to enable poor behavior by making excuses for it.

How a family reacts to a child's behavior and how a child is disciplined also play a big role in the development of defiant behaviors. The

our common humanity made it possible to find common cause in the midst of competition and that peace depended on our own virtue and ethical behavior.

Your life becomes painful only when you are no longer able to avoid the serious negative consequences that result from your Entitlement—for example, when you actually lose your job because you cannot complete the work properly, or when your spouse threatens to leave you. Only then will you acknowledge that other people are not happy with your behavior and that your entitlement is a problem. You finally realize that the lifetrap has a cost—that it can really damage your life.

Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism.

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.