Quotes About Behavior

The only thing we can control is our response.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

Freud regarded childhood as a time in which our lowest, most animalistic impulses are strongest.

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Szwed, K., & Bouck, E. (2013). Clicking away: Using a student response system to self-monitor behavior in a general education classroom. Journal of Special Education Technology, 28(2), 1–12.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)

changing code or behavior is not a big issue, it just needs to be released, but revising data structures can involve a huge effort in transforming the old version into a newer one

Reacting much as anyone does when

Avoid enablers. These are people who make it easy for you to perform your self-destructive behavior. People you go on a smoking break with. People who encourage you to take risks. Your partner, if he or she encourages you to be lazy or feeds you too much food. Try to enlist these people in your reform efforts, and if you can't, put some distance between you.

People often attempt to compensate for this loss of hope by comforting themselves with "consolation prizes": easy but self-destructive habits like too much TV, too much junk food, too much shopping, not enough exercise, endless video games. And sometimes they distract themselves with riskier behavior: alcohol and drugs, debt,

Neuroscientists know now that bad habits have a physical existence in the structure of the brain; they become the default circuits when we are faced with temptation.

People believe they lack will power, but will power is not something you either have or don't, like blue eyes. Instead, it's a skill, like tennis or typing. You have to train your nervous system as you would train your muscles and reflexes. You have to take yourself to the psychic gym—but with the certainty that each time you practice an alternative behavior, you've made it easier to do next time.

Though there can be other causes, most self-destructive behavior is the result of the fact that we have two minds that don't communicate very well.

We know that infant rats who receive more licking and grooming from their mothers are less fearful and more intelligent as adults, have better immune systems, and are more attentive mothers themselves.

Pleasure and desire are altogether different things in the brain.

To program their psychological matrices to include promiscuity and masochism.

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting.

Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.

You're not my boss, Alan." He returned to his game. Honestly, my first instinct was to smack the kid, but i doubted that would fly with his parents.

Les psychologues et les stylistes savent de longue date que l'apparence d'une personne modèle sa perception d'elle-même. Il est ensuite facile de modifier son comportement.

You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

sociosexual propagation misfits.