Quotes About Behavior

Man is a child of the customs and the things he has become used to. He is not the product of his natural disposition and temperament. The conditions to which he has become accustomed, until they have become for him a quality of character and matters of habit and custom, have replaced his natural disposition.

I call the PAEI the Textbook Manager because one finds him only in textbooks.1 At this point, what should be clear is that no one person behaves like a PAEI. The textbooks that describe management assume a perfect person who does not exist.

Frederick Hertzberg begins his famous article "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" as follows: "How many articles, books, speeches, and workshops have pleaded plaintively, 'How do I get an employee to do what I want him to do?'" (italics added). Read it again. Is Hertzberg speaking about motivation or manipulation? In

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

Saying of the Prophet Some behaviour I am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it.

Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.

There is one kind of man worse than a boastful man: a complaining one.

FIVE KINDS OF FOLLY The Sages have said that five things are signs of foolishness: First, seeking one's own good while harming others; Second, looking for the yield of the last days without discipline and service; Third, loving women harshly and brashly; Fourth, seeking to learn the refinements of science in comfort and ease; Fifth, expecting friendship without oneself being reliable and trustworthy. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Ejercita el poder por medio de la amabilidad, y podrás estar causando más daño que por la crueldad. Ninguno de estos abordajes es correcto.

DEBER Ningún deber es innoble. Lo que puede ser innoble es el espectáculo de gente que trata de no ser innoble.

Ejercita el poder por medio de la amabilidad, y podrás estar causando más daño que por medio de la crueldad. Ninguno de los abordajes es correcto.

Con suficiente información es casi imposible "no" predecir las acciones de la gente.

Hay un tipo de hombre peor que un hombre jactancioso: uno que se queja.

If you are mean, practise generosity as a corrective, not as a virtue.

Si eres mezquino, practica la generosidad como un correctivo, no como una virtud.

Si quieres alimentar tu estupidez, intenta con un poquito de avaricia.

Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition.

Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.

Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.

Hank drank. It was a behavior he had acquired in his youth—before Audrey, before his back gave him much trouble, before his career took him over. It was a behavior to which he turned at moments both predictable and unpredictable. It was a behavior that took him over and acquired its own momentum as his personal and professional problems mounted.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.