Behaviour – Quotes

It is impossible to

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour. Gabor Mate

Personally, I don’t see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. Evan Davis

We are more likely

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. Evan Davis

When there are no

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly – constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence. Evan Dando

The moment the organic

The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created. Eugene H. Peterson

It is essential… that

It is essential… that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one’s own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it. … Read more

The task of neural

The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment…? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand … Read more

And it’s absolutely true

And it’s absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating – and the levels of the communication that I’ve seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don’t we have that here? Emma Thompson

Behavior is what a

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. Emily Dickinson

Manners are a sensitive

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. Emily Post