242 Posts Found

In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs we may be left without mercy and compassion. In rejecting change and risk, we often cheat ourselves of the quest. In denying suffering, we may never know our strength and our greatness.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Personality / Behavior

There are two reasons people behave the way they do–the reason they tell you and the real reason.

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subject: Personality / Behavior

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions that move with him like flies on a summer’s day.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Philosophy

Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it … he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Adam Smith | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics, Personality / Behavior

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others that write what men do, not what they ought to do.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Personality / Behavior

To have hope, one doesn’t need certainty, only possibility.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personality / Behavior

Those who can’t laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personality / Behavior

We think, and with those thoughts, we create. We create the world we live in … We harvest in life, only and exactly, what we sow in our minds.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Life, Personality / Behavior

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves. Nearly every psychological problem – from anxiety and depression to self-sabotage at work or at school, from fear of intimacy to chronic hostility – is traceable to low self-esteem. In the chaotic and competitive world we face today, both personal happiness and economic survival rest on … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: CEO Refresher, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem | Subject: Personality / Behavior

90% of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reason for supporting our predilections.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Decision Making, Personality / Behavior

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Ambition, Personality / Behavior

Neuman surveyed the available evidence and found what advertisers and educators already knew–that most human beings are “obdurate, impenetrable, resourcefully resistant” toward any message, regardless of medium, that does not fit “the cognitive makeup of the minds receiving it.”

Wrote Neuman: “The mass citizenry, for most issues, simply will not take the time to learn more or understand more deeply, no matter how inexpensive or convenient … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: The Perverse in the Popular, The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personality / Behavior

Although people profess to learn from their mistakes, their behavior is shaped by their successes. This is why change is hard for people. Confronted with failure, or with a new world where the old tricks aren’t working any more, most people keep doing what they have been doing, only harder.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

There are few universals in life, but transference is one. What transference says is that no relationship we have is a new relationship; all relationships are colored by previous relationships.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subject: Personality / Behavior

When they listen to your ravings with indulgence, and, heaven help me, affection, you know you’ve joined the herd.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personality / Behavior

The world is made up of three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened!

Content: Quotation | Source: Emerson Management Solutions | Subjects: Leadership, Personality / Behavior

Greed and excess always end in tears for some–usually the inexperienced and last to join the party.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Finance, Personality / Behavior

Our industry is full of unpleasant type-A personalities such as myself…Never stand between me and a place I want to go. Don’t confuse my civility with complacency.

Content: Quotation | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Personality / Behavior