Quotes About Behavior

The secret is to persist in the method until 'reasoned, accurate, clear and beneficial' behaviour becomes habitual.

Why do people do evil things? Messenger's answer stunned me, "Why did you?

What if you give young adults two cups of water immediately before a meal? Do they then eat less? Indeed, they eat about 20 percent less, taking in more than one hundred fewer calories.

The group of overweight nine- to twelve-year-olds randomized to the water intervention was told to increase their water intakes to the point their urine became straw-colored (pale yellow). Once again, not every kid complied, but those who did lost significantly more weight.3856 Inspired

If you ask people to double their baseline number of chews per bite, they end up eating about 15 percent less pizza, feeling just as full eating more than one hundred fewer calories.2996 Even just asking them to chew 50 percent more times than normal may cut their consumption by nearly 10 percent.2997

Maybe it's time we stop blaming genetics and focus on the more than 70 percent that is directly under our control.

Studies show obese individuals tend to remain seated for about two and a half hours longer each day than the average, inactive yet lean, shoestring couch potato.3174 Normal-weight individuals just tend to get up and move around more.

People were given soup, but half were given small spoons and told to eat slowly, and the other half were given big spoons and told to eat quickly, and an amazing thing happened: The slow-eating group not only ended up feeling more satiated, but they did so after eating less soup.2977 They felt fuller eating less food.

Maybe it's time we stop blaming genetics and focus on the more than 70 percent that is directly under our control.53 We have the power.

The study found that 90 percent of the subjects inexplicably ramped up their exercise when they were unwittingly eating the low-saturated-fat diet, increasing their activity levels 12–15 percent on average. The researchers concluded that a high intake of saturated fat "might dampen motivation for physical activity.

Obesity may simply be a normal response to an abnormal environment.

Note that to break a bad habit or create a new one, we have to select a new action (eat an apple) rather than just give up an existing behavior (don't eat potato chips).3798 To activate the habit-forming mechanism, you likely need a new alternative response, rather than a nonresponse.

Some parents mistakenly believe that they need to break the will of a spirited child, even punishing him into obedience, like a horse trainer who beats a horse until the animal breaks. This was not how Seabiscuit was tamed, and it's not about to work with most spirited kids. The problem with the heavy-handed approach is that spirited children have a keen sense of respect and disrespect. When parents rely on punishment, especially

We live out in our everyday relationships what we believe about God. That is, there is a direct connection between what one believes and how one lives.

Now that I've seen what Mennus is capable of, I'm even more worried about her. He's a genuine nitcase.

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.

Both men were at peace with their cause, seeking no greater glory than service itself. They reached a state where their internal compass controlled their external behavior.

Learning depends on curiosity and asking questions. The experience of curiosity is equivalent to continuously living and operating out of a question frame as simple as "What's this?"—as all children do. It is through questions that we operationalize curiosity into behavior, and as a result they are the foundation of any kind of learning, be it formal, informal, or personal.

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We judge ourselves by our best acts and most noble intentions, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

What you allow, you encourage.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Any behavior we resort to in order to avoid feeling what we are really feeling in any given moment is an addiction.

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.