Quotes About Behavior

shame and humiliation are disrespectful, and a child who is treated with disrespect is likely to return the favor.

the primary social goal of children (and adults) was to belong and feel significant within their family or social group. Although they are not always conscious of this goal, children constantly adjust their behavior to achieve a sense of belonging (connection) and significance (responsibility and capability).

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.

The family is affected when the relatives and friends can no longer tolerate the consequences of alcoholism and avoid the alcoholic and his/her family. The family is also directly affected by the alcoholic's behavior. Unable, without help, to counteract this, the family members get caught up in the consequences of the illness and become emotionally ill themselves.

If the child of the alcoholic, not unlike the alcoholic, is ever to mature, there must be accountability. Part of having a strong sense of self is to be accountable for one's actions. No matter how much we explore motives or lack of motives, we are what we do. We take credit for the good and we must take credit for the bad. The key is to take responsibility for all of our behavior.

Medea really does behave like a man in getting her revenge, instead of letting it go like the Chorus advises. And if every woman behaved like a man, then—well, I don't see how the human race would survive.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

Rude behavior may get you nowhere in life, but crazy behavior will take you all sorts of places. Most people prefer you go there alone.

We leave an imprint on others with our attitude," Megan said. "Good or bad. A little bit of us rubs off on them. So when you react with an attitude to something— good or bad—it's like you're creating a …" She paused and appeared to be thinking about what to say. "Like a fossil on the heart, if that makes any sense.

What does it mean when individuals can no longer be embarrassed or shamed?

You can't buy class, but you can buy tolerance for its absence.

An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.

even a child is known by his actions

We have not yet proven that they can. But if we do, it will be because we faced the truth unflinchingly. We will have to shun the shakedown artists and guiltmongers. Whites will have to turn their backs on cowardly, dishonest behavior designed solely to escape charges of "racism." They must reject wholesale, off-the-shelf accusations and search for explanations that go deeper than the sloganeering, grandstanding, and buffoonery that now control the field.

The effort whites put into observing racial etiquette has been demonstrated in the laboratory.

The reason blacks and whites do not enjoy similar outcomes despite similar treatment by society is that the black and white populations are not equivalent. Although I expressed myself as gently and sympathetically as possible, my conclusion was that black outcomes reflect black behavior rather than oppression by whites. A

This is a result of APIs being like stars: once someone discovers them, they need to stay and behave well forever.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Why is he sweet? Sometimes a guy will be sweet because he needs to make up for the times he's been bad. I once heard it said that when a guy often acts disrespectfully to you, his bad behavior is not a piece of the puzzle. It solves the whole mystery. It tells you who he is. So don't get wrapped up in the bliss of his candy-coated personality when he's trying to make it up to you.

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action.

The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.

people valued politeness more than truth

Walk into a library anywhere in the world and you'll notice the same thing: It's quiet and calm. Everyone knows how to behave in a library. In fact, few things transcend cultures like library behavior. It's a place where people go to read, think, study, focus, and work. And the hushed, respectful environment reflects that. Isn't that what an office should be?

Culture is action, not words.