Quotes About Behavior

Despite our many foibles, the Filipina helper community loves working for the gweilos. And by foibles, I mean behavior that is in complete disregard for all societal norms and basic human decency. My

Men hide to make love but practice violence in daylight

I marvel at animal behaviour but it never surprises me. Nature has had a long time to hone its secret skills.

Children called Joseph, Cameron, William and Jake are naughtier than those called Jacob, Daniel, Thomas and James.

Every man is as Nature made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Cats could follow human instructions if they wanted to, but they don't.

If cats don't encounter people by the time they're 10 weeks old, they will always be scared of them.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Finally, if any NPIs are to have any effect, the public has to comply with the recommendations and sustain that compliance.

As George Loewenstein, an economist at Carnegie Mellon, points out, "There is little evidence beyond fallible introspection supporting the standard assumption of complete volitional control of behavior.

Damasio and Bechara developed their 'Somatic Marker Hypothesis'. According to this hypothesis, each event we store in memory comes bookmarked with the bodily sensations – Damasio and Bechara call these 'somatic markers' – we felt at the time of living through it for the first time; and these help us decide what to do when we find ourselves in a similar situation.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good. NetworkEtiquette.net

Character is the main object of education.

Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.