“Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.” ThinkingNeedsGivingMindLooksMayFeelingsResultsAttentionWatchesBehaviorConsciousAimCharityFruitClarityWitnessPurityNoticingInattention Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.” HeartSpiritualBehaviorAspectTransformationAimFormationModificationCircumcisionSpiritual FormationBehavior Modification Author:Dallas Willard
“A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.” ShouldChildrenLongPlayPastFormNaturalChildhoodBehaviorAimEducateHonoredNatural Forms Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their basic national aims, their just national aspirations, without violence. Unfortunately, the behavior of the Sharon administration, and before this of the Barak administration, has shown the Palestinians the opposite: namely, that they will achieve nothing without violence.” PartyResponsibilityViolenceAchieveBehaviorOppositesStrongerAimIsraelAdministrationAspirationConvincePalestinianSharon Author:Uri Avnery
“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.” MenHumansMeanCharacterProblemCertainEducationFourMaterialsBehaviorConcernedAimMethodIntellectTopics Author:Edward Thorndike
“Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.” PeopleGivingPurposeGoalSimpleLibertyPrinciplesClearStupidBehaviorIntelligentAimComplexesEducationalLibertarianRegulationFoundersSetting GoalsRules And RegulationsSimple And Complex Author:Dee Hock