Quotes About Behavior

It's important for these youngsters to realize that if they're genuinely sorry their feelings of remorse should be translated into action. The "repeat offender" can be told any of the following: "Sorry means behaving differently." "Sorry means making changes." "I'm glad to hear you're sorry. That's the first step. The second step is to ask yourself what can be done about it.

When we describe the event (instead of talking about what "you did"), we seem to make it easier for the child to hear what the problem is and deal with it.

this approach was permissive only in the sense that all feelings were permitted. For example, "I can see that you're having fun making designs in the butter with your fork." But that doesn't mean that you have to permit a child to behave in a way that's unacceptable to you. As you remove the butter, you can also let the young "artist" know that "Butter is not for playing with. If you want to make designs, you can use your clay.

Punishment is a very ineffective method of discipline . . . for punishment, strangely enough, often has the effect of teaching the child to behave in exactly the opposite way from the way we want him to behave! Many parents use punishment simply because no one has ever taught them better ways of disciplining their children.

One of the built-in frustrations of parenthood is the daily struggle to get our children to behave in ways that are acceptable to us and to society. This can be maddening, uphill work. Part of the problem lies in the conflict of needs.

Do we still live in a world where being polite keeps order or does it leave you vulnerable?

We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.

Neither Queen Anne nor her devoted and frequently drunk husband George was particularly good at socializing.

Across the freeway stands another structure from the other side of the mirror it destroys the logical processes of the mind, a man's thoughts become completely disorganized, madness streaming from every throat frustrated sounds from the bars, metallic sounds from the walls the steel trays, iron beds bolted to the wall, thr smells, the human waste. To determine how men will behave once they enter prison it is of first importance to know that prison.

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.

So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.

They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer's patients are that way, but many are. My mother was very difficult. She had extreme mood changes and would become fearful.

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.