actions

We must be honest about our actions and avoid excuses, if we fool ourselves into believing we're not doing anything wrong, we can't see the real choice we're making - and that leads to bad decisions.

To avoid fooling yourself, watch out for excuses and try this test: Ask how you would feel if your actions were public and anyone could be watching over yourshoulder

Cheating Hurts Other, Too Cheaters often feel invisible, as if their actions "don't count" and don't really hurt anyone

I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take responsibilities for my actions and my choices.

But respondents had decidedly mixed feelings about what actions make for a better life in the current economy.

By and large, people felt that their actions and hard work—not outside forces—were the deciding factor in how their lives turned out.

Students are more likely to think about their actions and see whether they will lead to trouble.

When supervisors give employees an unfavorable evaluation, they must decide whether to take any additional actions.

I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take responsibilities for my actions and my choices.

But it was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.

Co-author Céline Le Bohec, from the University of Strasbourg in France, warned: "If there're no actions aimed at haling or controlling global warming, and the pace of the current human- induced changes such as climate change and overfishing stays the same

The most important one is that you have to take more individual responsibility for your actions.

They should also be sceptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.

All of this makes the actions of the homeless tom smith even more remarkable.

Elsewhere in asia even more astonishing actions are being taken.

Since then, many scientists have thought that our actions do make a difference.

These actions have greatly affected the ecological balance.

To explain this phenomenon, the researchers explored the degree to which a good performance by a team requires its members to coordinate their actions.

In contrast to France's actions, Denmark's fashion industry agreed last month on rules and sanctions regarding the age, health, and other characteristics of models.

In his book The tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that "social epidemics" are driven in large part by the actions of a tiny minority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well-connected.

It's just that individual actions are too slow, she says, for that to be the only, or even primary, approach to changing widespread behavior.

Prior knowledge and interests influence what we experience, what we think our experiences mean, and the subsequent actions we take.

Such actions to seek knowledge and to understand what information we already knew were captured by the Latin phrase "sapere aude" or "dare to know", after Immanuel Kant used it in his essay An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?

They could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have "done our bit" without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions—a kind of "moral licensing" that allays our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.