Quotes About Behavior

If doing something once makes you have fear, doing it over and over and over again is only going to reinforce that fear.

When you want a guide to changing your behavior, you're looking for quick ways to make quick changes.

Being able to play these memories forward with circus music and backward with silly music allows the feelings to become separated from the images and the memories will no longer haunt you. The purpose of memories is to learn from them or to enjoy them or to use them as guides for your behavior, and it doesn't help to relive trauma. Over the years, I've helped many, many people whose lives had been crippled by traumatic experiences to get away from the memories.

If you've been afraid most of your life, you may not have good examples of what "happy" is. In that case, you can build it in. That's what I do. You have to give people a really strong feeling of being relaxed, a really strong feeling of feeling good as a guide for their behavior. You do this so that, in the future when they wake up, they start asking, How much fun can I have today? How much freedom can I find? How much more can I do than I've done before?

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

We know that giving someone ideas as to what they 'should' do and how they should 'change' to be more effective, often has the opposite effect

mismo principio aplica para las actitudes positivas de la gente: no se puede entrenar la actitud: hay que contratarla.

If you have no control over your child at home, and yet she behaves very well at school and in other people's homes, take heart. This is a common situation, and one that is better than many other possibilities.

A child who perpetually pesters her parents is still searching for the limits she needs to grow straight. Her demanding and disruptive behavior is, to a great degree, meant to test you, to find out what outrageous action will finally get you to react—constructively.

Give your child a consequence that is meaningful to him or her.

Tantrums should become less frequent as you proceed through unspoiling. However, they might become more intense for a short while.

Model the gratitude you want your children to show.

the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by ensuring believers remain emotional children, never achieving the cognitive moral development of adults. Psychologists have established that mature adults are moral not because of bare threats and bribes (that stage of moral development typifies children, not adults), but because they care about the effects their behavior has on themselves and others.

The manner in which we carry ourselves has an equally significant role to play in expressing body language.

You are what you practice most.

The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day.

The first thing a human being is loyal to, Yen Lo observed, is his own conditioned nervous system.

Low-income students stuck in schools located in high-poverty areas are surrounded by peers who, because they have had less opportunity, are typically less academically engaged and more likely to act out than those in schools in higher-income neighborhoods.

Multi-active cultures are very flexible. If Pedro interrupted Carlos's conversation, which was already in the process of interrupting Sven's tennis, this was quite normal and acceptable in Portugal. It is not acceptable in

we generally find that the closer we stick to the rules of our society, the more accepted we become.

Indeed, this is what modern and postmodern masculinity has been all about-men behaving like little boys forever, serving themselves in the name of self-discovery. (Can we imagine someone like Ronald Reagan or Winston Churchill talking about going on a quest to find his masculine self? They were too busy changing the world.)

Unlike the stereotyped carousing, hotel room-smashing, self-destructive pop star, Monroe did not smoke, drink, or use drugs. But he did love women. Many of them.

Greed is not the cause of capitalists' behavior; it is a quality they acquire in accommodating to and internalizing the requirements of competitive survival within the capitalist system.

The system is a contradiction: the very logic imposed on the capitalist enterprise undermines the overall success of the capitalist. For Marxists, no law, rule, regulation, or behavior pattern provides an escape from this contradiction; none ever has.