Quotes About Behavior

When we reject the truth of someone's story—the ultimate failure of story stewardship—it's often because we've stealthily centered ourselves in their story, and the narrative takeover is about protecting our ego, behavior, or privilege

The stealth intention is a self-protection need that lurks beneath the surface and often drives behavior outside our values. Closely related is the stealth expectation—a desire or expectation that exists outside our awareness and typically includes a dangerous combination of fear and magical thinking. Stealth expectations almost always lead to disappointment, resentment, and more fear.

we spend an unreasonable amount of time managing problematic behaviors.

Often, leaders and executive coaches gather people together and try to teach resilience skills after there's been a setback or failure. It turns out that's like teaching first-time skydivers how to land after they hit the ground. Or, maybe worse, as they're free-falling. Our research shows that leaders who are trained in rising skills as part of a courage-building program are more likely to engage in courageous behaviors because they know how to get back up.

The animals who play with the most abandon are the predators." "But surely prey are almost never safe enough to play.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him. "Suicide does not happen on a sudden impulse. It is an act that has been rehearsed during years of unconscious punitive behavior patterns."[15]

and therefore is a reasonable basis for interpretations and conclusions. 4. BEA involves three different kinds of examinations as part of crime scene analysis. What are they? 5. All behavior has underlying causes and origins. The origins may be conscious or subconscious, however. This is related to the principle of ____________? 6. The forgetting curve is associated with which principle of BEA? 7. Explain why profilers should be responsible for requesting case materials in writing.

We may unintentionally hold up our own or another's well-intended behavior as the standard to meet, rather than the Lord's gentle, steady, and compassionate guidelines and commandments.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Some men would do better to stay poor," Francesca said. " Money only exaggerates their vulgarities.

Kids are kids...They do stupid stuff. The thing you guys don't understand is that with this email business, there is no such thing as confidentiality anymore.

I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

I should be the last to deny that the lordly prelates serve their own ambition and avarice before anything else; the higher their rank the more striking the contrast between the dignity of their office and their behavior.

My shortcomings are no excuse for others acting in that way," Wallander said. "Not my superior in any case.

There was something in Björk's behavior that was typical of the peasant's awe of those in power.

Where do our habits come from? he thought. What secret factory produces our habits, both good and bad? Ellen Magnusson

if I am able to look at the world with the eyes of God's love and discover that God's vision is not that of a stereotypical landowner or patriarch but rather that of an all-giving and forgiving father who does not measure out his love to his children according to how well they behave, then I quickly see that my only true response can be deep gratitude.

If the urge to be entertained so much, to travel so much, to buy so much, and to arm ourselves so much no longer motivated our behavior, could our society as it is today still function?

The awareness that children are guests can be a liberating awareness because many parents suffer from deep guilt feelings toward their children, thinking that they are responsible for everything their sons or daughters do. When they see their child living in ways they disapprove of, the parents may castigate themselves with the questions: "What did we do wrong? What should we have done to prevent this behavior?" and they may wonder where they failed.

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can old man, — you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind,– I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.