Quotes About Behavior

The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine.

Several families interviewed for this book recommended the oldest persuasive tool known to man: bribery. Each child is given some amounts of virtual cash, 25-30 cents, for each hour of good behaviour. The same amount is subtracted from their accounts for breaking the rules. All purchases for fun - whether souvenirs, ice cream, or otherwise - come out of their own individual accounts. No balance, no goodies. This often requires more self-control on the part of the parents than the children.

Answer me this: would you work harder to earn $100 or avoid losing $100? The smiley optimist says the former, but if research from the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University is any indication, fear of loss is the home-run winner. Experimental groups given $15 and then told the $15 would be rescinded if they lost a subsequent auction routinely overbid the most. Groups offered $15 if they won weren't nearly as "committed.

Los niños no hacen lo que les dices que hagan. Hacen lo que ven. Tu forma de vivir la vida les sirve a ellos de ejemplo.»

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene,

The moment I start one of these three behaviors—blaming, complaining, or gossiping—I become negative. It is a sign of avoiding what I am responsible for: my life.

Bad dog. Hit yourself with a newspaper and cut it out.

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

People can only be found in what they do.

Ain't never gone to be no asshole shortage. We got oil shortages, grain shortages, coal shortages, every kind of fuckin' shortage you can think of, but there ain't no asshole shortage. Assholism is a dominant trait.

Ä°nsan olmak, pek çok psikoloÄŸa göre dürüst bir biçimde mant?ks?z olmakt?r.

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

But the Bible teaches again and again that our circumstances don't cause us to act as we do. They only expose the true condition of our hearts, revealed in our words and actions.

Sin affects us in six basic ways.

Repentance is not true repentance unless it is specific and intelligent. We don't sin in the abstract; we sin in concrete, particular ways. Since that is true, we need to take an honest look at our lives—both heart and behavior. Spiritual awareness is a blessing. Through it, we can experience change.

We are called to be people of great character so that, when we come in contact with the world, our character influences those around us.

Look at your life through the eyes of your Redeemer. Let him reveal your behavior and your heart as well. The courage of self-examination leads to the hope of lasting personal change when God is involved. Emmanuel has entered your story and nothing will ever be the same again!

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.

Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.

the very beginning, anticipatory obedience means adapting instinctively, without reflecting, to a new situation. Do only Germans do such things? The Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, contemplating Nazi atrocities, wanted to show that there was a particular authoritarian personality that explained why Germans behaved as they had.

In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.

No, quello che mi fa incazzare è che tanta gente non sa perdere, beh, tu non sai vincere!