Quotes About Behavior

The same thing happens when well-meaning counsellors place a delinquent teen among comparatively civilized peers. The delinquency spreads, not the stability.65 Down is a lot easier than up.

Sanity is knowing the rules of the social game,

A creature that cannot think must solely embody its Being. It can merely act out its nature, concretely, in the here-and-now. If it cannot manifest in its behavior what the environment demands while doing so, it will simply die. But that is not true of human beings. We can produce abstracted representations of potential modes of Being. We can produce an idea in the theatre of the imagination. We can test it out against our other ideas, the ideas of

This is the pattern of behaviour continually represented in the sexually explicit literary fantasies that are as popular among women as provocative images of naked women are among men.)

Women's proclivity to say no, more than any other force, has shaped our evolution into the creative, industrious, upright, large-brained (competitive, aggressive, domineering) creatures that we are.

In other words, you decide to act as if existence might be justified by its goodness—if only you behaved properly. And it is that decision, that declaration of existential faith, that allows you to overcome nihilism, and resentment, and arrogance.

Without careful attention, culture itself tilts toward corruption.

Naše je duševno zdravlje plod kvalitetna uranjanja u društvenu zajednicu, i to u puno ve?oj mjeri nego što smo obi?no svjesni. Netko nas neprestano mora podsje?ati na to da se trebamo ispravno ponašati i razmišljati. Kada skrenemo s toga puta, ljudi kojima je stalo do nas i koji nas vole na razne nas na?ine guraju natrag na stazu. Prema tome, jako je dobro imati takve ljude u blizini

Pravilo glasi: ''Do?i k nama ?im se uspiješ primjereno ponašati.'' To je vrlo dobra ponuda za dijete, roditelje i društvo. Lako ?ete vidjeti je li vaše dijete uistinu povratilo kontrolu i opet ?e vam se svi?ati, usprkos prijašnjemu ponašanju. Ako ste još uvijek ljuti, možda se dijete nije u potpunosti pokajalo - ili možda trebate u?initi nešto sa svojom sklonosti inatljivosti.

Parents are the arbiters of society. They teach children how to behave so that other people will be able to interact meaningfully and productively with them.

algunas personas siguen siendo objeto de abusos porque no responden a la agresión.

And what about the idea that hitting a child merely teaches them to hit? First: No. Wrong. Too simple. For starters, "hitting" is a very unsophisticated word to describe the disciplinary act of an effective parent. If "hitting" accurately described the entire range of physical force, then there would be no difference between rain droplets and atom bombs. Magnitude matters—and so does context, if we're not being wilfully blind and naïve about the issue.

The ancient part of your brain specialized for assessing dominance watches how you are treated by other people. On that evidence, it renders a determination of your value and assigns you a status. If you are judged by your peers as of little worth, the counter restricts serotonin availability.

Simplesmente não somos ateus nas nossas ações e são as nossas ações que refletem mais precisamente as nossas crenças mais profundas – aquelas que estão implícitas, impregnadas no Ser, sob as nossas apreensões supérfluas e as atitudes articuláveis e do autoconhecimento superficial.

People exist among other people and not as purely individual minds. An individual does not have to be that well put together if he or she can remain at least minimally acceptable in behavior to others. Simply put: We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.

can't see how this behaviour would have improved his popularity or status.

Long ago, in the dim mists of time, we began to realize that reality was structured as if it could be bargained with. We learned that behaving properly now, in the present—regulating our impulses, considering the plight of others—could bring rewards in the future, in a time and place that did not yet exist.

Imagine a toddler repeatedly striking his mother in the face. Why would he do such a thing? It's a stupid question. It's unacceptably naive. The answer is obvious. To dominate his mother. To see if he can get away with it. Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default. It's easy. It's peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

It is an act of responsibility to discipline a child. It is not anger at misbehavior. It is not revenge for a misdeed. It is instead a careful combination of mercy and long-term judgment.

You remember the old joke: insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.

En términos estadísticos, los niños de dos años son las personas más violentas que existen.

You can use your own standards of judgment. You can rely on yourself for guidance. You don't have to adhere to some external, arbitrary code of behaviour (although you should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don't have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you).

The acts of life we repeat every day need to be automatized. They must be turned into stable and reliable habits, so they lose their complexity and gain predictability and simplicity.

Myths are the stories we tell ourselves about how we behave, when we don't know how it is we behave or even why.