Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
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Quotes tagged ‘Behavior’
Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and…
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can
The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings…
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed — if we are not willing — we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.
What do politicians, naked women, and electrons all have in common? They change their behavior when being observed.
To focus on the objective price rather than on the subjective experience of consuming the good itself stabilizes my behavior toward it.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.
Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.