Quotes About Behavior

Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time.

We cannot control how others treat us but we can control the way we react to them.

We live in a culture of violence.

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred.

But what you do in your child's first five years of life—not just the first year—profoundly influences how he or she will behave as an adult.

If you don't have a lot of energy, and you are called upon to give to your youngest several times a minute (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say), you quickly exhaust your reservoir of good will toward your spouse.

People view their own behaviors as originating from situations beyond their control, but they view other people's behaviors as originating from inherent personality traits.

One of the hardest behaviors to quench in anyone is a habit that is only occasionally rewarded. Want to keep a gambler at a slot machine longer? Make sure the payout schedule is random. Studies show that people who experience random rewards in response to a behavior cling to that behavior much more solidly than those who don't. This

is to teach her impulse control in her early

Americans 2 years of age and older now spend an average of four hours and 49 minutes per day in front of the TV—20 percent more than 10 years ago. And we are getting this exposure at younger and younger ages, made all the more complex because of the wide variety of digital screen time now available. In 2003, 73 percent of kids under 6 watched television every day. And children younger than 2 got two hours and five minutes of "screen time" with TVs and computers per day.

Yes, your children are constantly observing you. They are profoundly influenced by what they record. And that can quickly turn from funny to serious, especially when mommy and daddy start fighting.

Because we don't fully understand how our brains work, we do dumb things. We try to talk on our cell phones and drive at the same time, even though it is literally impossible for our brains to multitask when it comes to paying attention.

les ruego que traten de conocer a sus hijos. Eso significa dedicarles mucho tiempo. La única forma de descubrir qué funciona y qué no funciona es conocer su comportamiento y saber cómo cambia con el tiempo.

Most of its functions involve what some researchers call the "four Fs": fighting, feeding, fleeing, and … reproductive behavior.

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

Virtue ethicists, taking their cue from Aristotle, define moral behavior as behavior that expresses virtues, which are principles that lead to excellence in human life. Some virtues derive from others, but there's no single principle from which all virtues unfold.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but doWhat then thou would'st.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

They seem to think I'm sort o juvenile delinquent, the result of an undesirable background. Give him a normal reliable theatrical home, and you'll find he can behave as decently as anyone else.

my father] usually concealed his rages with unconvincing politeness to contain his sparse energy, an instinct I may have inherited

Jimmy: I hope you won't make the mistake of thinking for one moment that I am a gentleman.

Nothing undermines change more than behavior by important individuals that is inconsistent with the verbal communication.

When the Bible uses the term heart, it means the causal core of your personhood. The heart is your directional system. The heart is your steering wheel. Your behavior isn't caused by the situations and relationships outside of you. This passage teaches that your experiences influence, but do not determine, your behavior. Your behavior is shaped and caused by how your heart reacts to and interacts with the situations and relationships that are outside of you.