#behavior

We considered behaving, but it's against our nature. ↗

— O.R. Melling

#disobedience #humor #dreams

Our ability to have patience, and our attitude toward others, define who we are at any given time. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#behavior #patience #attitude

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#change #circumstances #change

That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#fashion #fashion-women #human-behavior #life-lessons #new-york

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #personality #weirdness #life

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior. ↗

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

#education #psychology #raising-children #education

We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#logic #mind #psychology #life

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dislike #good-turns #injury #kindness #like