Behavioral Response Quotes

As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior

We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.

It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.

Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

As human beings, we're powerfully swayed by how much we feel we're being respected. People comply with agreements if they feel they've been treated fairly and lash out if they don't.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct consequences.

Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you're simply going along and you're being confronted by different things, not necessarily very important or significance for your ultimate life, but you are constantly reacting to the world.

...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to do any significant protective work for me, so my mouth was it. Making my father laugh was a way to control him.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

In a way, sometimes I was quite pleased when I got beat, 'cos then I could do my antics.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.