Quotes About Behavior

The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to explain it is indulging in a certain arrogance.

In an important departure from tradition, the commission singled out Turkish massacres and deportations of Armenian civilians as being so grotesque that—although they had not been specifically banned by the Hague and Geneva conventions—these actions were inherently criminal under the most elementary norms of human behavior. This was, they said, a "crime against humanity

Finally, I said, "No!" rather sharply. His mum looked at me in horror. "We don't say no to George, Tracy." "Well, ducky," I said, "maybe it's time you started. I can't very well let him come round here to destroy things my girls know enough not to touch. Besides, this isn't George's fault—it's yours, because you haven't taught him what's his and what's yours.

Has your child ever slept through the night? In lots of cases we have to start at Square One. We have to look at emotional history as well, and for demanding behavior: head-banging, pushing, slapping, biting, hair-pulling, kicking, throwing themselves on the floor, going rigid when being held.

When you don't stop to think about your feelings—including how they are influencing your behavior now, and will continue to do so in the future—you set yourself up to be a frequent victim of emotional hijackings. Whether you're aware of it or not, your emotions will control you, and you'll move through your day reacting to your feelings with little choice in what you say and do.

A single cell can grow 15,000 connections with its neighbors. This chain reaction of growth ensures the pathway of thought responsible for the behavior grows strong, making it easier to kick this new resource into action in the future.

Butch's thoughts didn't make his feelings of fear and terror disappear, but they did keep his emotions from hijacking his behavior.

understand why you do the things you do, the better equipped you'll be to keep your emotions from running the show.

Self-management is your ability to use your awareness of your emotions to stay flexible and direct your behavior positively.

Personal competence is made up of your self-awareness and self-management skills, which focus more on you individually than on your interactions with other people. Personal competence is your ability to stay aware of your emotions and manage your behavior and tendencies.

Since we're hard-wired to experience emotions before we can respond to them, it's the one-two punch of reading emotions effectively and then reacting to them that sets the best self-managers apart.

What a Lack of Self-Management Looks Like Jason L., information technology consultant Self-management score = 59 What people who work with him say: "In stressful situations, or when something goes wrong, Jason sometimes responds too quickly, sharply, or disjointedly.

But I was a polite kid, so I went. Even the wildest and toughest of us kids, several of whom ended up in prison and one on death row, would be accounted polite by today's standards.

What we see strongly guides what we do: To an extent, we enact what we imagine.

The criticism that hip hop advocates and thus causes violence relies on the unsubstantiated but widely held belief that listening to violent stories or consuming violent images directly encourages violent behavior.

5:16 I shotgun two beers, piss out the bedroom window, catcall passing girls, burp violently, put cage fighting on tv, play with myself. I feel manly again.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

INTERVIEWER Do you believe in God? ECO Why does one love a certain person one day and discover the next day that the love is gone? Feelings, alas, disappear without justification, and often without a trace. INTERVIEWER If you don't believe in God, then why have you written at such great length about religion? ECO Because I do believe in religion. Human beings are religious animals, and such a characteristic feature of human behavior cannot be ignored or dismissed.

En suma todo el mundo, si se mira bien, participa de alguna de esas categorías. Cada uno de nosotros de vez en cuando es un cretino, un imbécil, un estúpido o un loco. Digamos que la persona normal es la que combina razonablemente todos esos componentes o tipos ideales.

Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men.

Juan XXIII y Benigno Zaccagnini hacían simplemente lo que se esperaba de ellos, y no hay razón para que hubiera que felicitarlos por eso.

la intolerancia salvaje se ataja de raíz, a través de una educación constante que empiece desde la más tierna infancia, antes de que se escriba en un libro y antes de que se convierta en costra de conducta demasiado espesa y dura.

I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.

Here, on the one hand, nobody respects silence any more. On the other, it is respected too much. Here, instead of talking or remaining silent, we should act.