Quotes About Behavior

When we do discipline without showing frustration, the odds for success increase in a very big way.

Anger Short-Circuits Learning

Kids seem most secure around parents who are strong, who don't allow the limits they place on their kids to crumble. Children lose respect for adults who cannot set limits and make them stick. Kids who misbehave without having to face the consequences become brats.

No wonder Nolan whines like a pro: He has a good teacher. The fact is, parents who spend a lot of time pleading with their children develop kids who are experts at pleading

we surrender and grudgingly fork over the cookie. The message the child gets is that whining works.

Telling our kids what to do—"You get to work on that lawn right now." Telling our kids what we will not allow—"You're not going to talk to me that way!" Telling our kids what we won't do for them—"I'm not letting you out of this house until you clean the living room.

The key to effective discipline is to control only what we can control. We can never make an infant stop crying, quit bothering us, stop sucking his or her thumb, or cut the whining. What we can and should control, though, is where he or she does all these things.

remember, we are not sending them there to punish them; we are merely giving them the opportunity to pull themselves together.

When things are done right, be emotional. When things are done poorly, be nonemotional, matter-of-fact, and consequential.

You cannot accurately assume that all the dogs saved from a fight bust are vicious and unstable or that all pit bulls are biting machines waiting for their chance to attack. It may be easier and less expensive to think that way, but it's not true. Yes, if pit bulls attack, they're equipped to do the job well—they're strong, agile, and determined—and they may even have some genetic inclination to be aggressive toward other dogs, but nurture plays

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Consumers experience and come to know a company's culture because of the consistent, widely shared, collective behaviors of the internal team.

Everyone is entitled to be foolish sometimes, but many people abuse the privilege.

As Aristotle said: "We are what we repeatedly do." Or as the Dalai Lama put it more recently: "There isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves.

A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety.

A society that once operated with some degree of sanity and politeness has become largely demented and rude.

As will be demonstrated later, the true cause of the recent rise in mass shootings is not weapons but the increase in psychiatric drugs being prescribed for youngsters. The

The advice in this book centers around two overarching messages: Be thoughtful in your actions and always conduct yourself with class. You will never regret either.

The basic distinction between the individual and the crowd is that the individual acts after reasoning, deliberation, and analysis; a crowd acts on feeling, emotion, and impulses.

The truth is that trading, both successful and unsuccessful, is more about psychology than tactics.

the herd instinct and crowd behavior arise out of our desire to replace uncertainty with certainty

But emotionalism (i.e., decision making based on emotions) is bad, can be controlled, and should be avoided. So instead of examining each of the many individual emotions, this chapter will focus on the entity that epitomizes emotionalism: the crowd.

The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.20 (William O'Neil)