Quotes About Behavior

Cognition and emotion are both critical parts of normal functioning. As neatly summarized by Dr. Robert Sylwester (whose interview can be found at the end of this chapter): "Emotion is the system that tells us how important something is. Attention focuses us on the important and away from the unimportant things. Cognition tells us what to do about it. Cognitive skills are whatever it takes to do those things.

Chickens have a twenty-minute memory. We primates cope through booze and denial. Dial up more of that denial part, you'll last longer.

treat the men we wanted like the men we didn't want.

Education, culture, the exercise of the will, human effort, all have their proper sphere, but here they are powerless. They may produce an outward correctness of behavior, but they cannot change the heart;

Your wrong habits of eating have so educated your moral powers that you have not the spirit of a Christian. Your temper is perverse, and your treatment of dumb [voiceless] animals is wrong." ~ Ellen G. White, Manuscript Releases Vol. 3, p. 306

One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

man is not a rational animal. He may have invented many social philosophies, but he remains incurably biological.

to be positive would be to accept positive statements by others, that is, compliments, but as we've seen, to do so sets us up for negative punishment.

although he was at core a rotten being, no one could fault him for style.

Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

Most crimes are committed by 'criminals'—that is to say, by individuals habituated by environment and repetitious conduct to the pursuit of law-breaking.

But they forget that crime is the criminal's business, and that every business leaves its indelible mark of habit on the business man.

Aronson's first law: People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

Like you, I know people who drink, people who do drugs, and bosses who have tantrums and treat their subordinates like dirt. They all have good jobs. Were they to become homeless, some of them would surely also become 'alcoholics,' 'addicts,' or 'mentally ill.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.

I think only someone I loved as much as you could make me behave like such an idiot.

Has no one ever taught you it is rude to pry?' 'Would you rather I sneaked about, ferreting things out? Of course not. 'Twould be most distasteful. All in all, I'd rather be thought rude than artful.

Parisians stand to the side of an opening train door, waiting for passengers to exit, rather than elbowing their way on. They form neat lines at the grocery store. I seem to be the only jaywalker in the city. But let one of them behind a steering wheel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ everything changes. Held up in traffic for more than thirty seconds, a Parisian goes berserk and honks until the surrounding buildings shake.

Esme Rawlings is as intelligent as she is dissolute.

Informality is the vice of the masses.

Don't you mean to lecture me on the evils of illicit relationships?' 'No. I am quite certain you are aware of the disagreeable consequences if the /ton/ were to discover your activities. But I have found that occasionally a small peccadillo that harms no one can be conducive to a cheerful disposition.