Quotes About Behavior

A typical indication that the critic has mellowed into being functional is that it speaks to us in a kind and helpful voice. It reminds us dispassionately to adjust our behavior when we can and ought to be doing something better.

Such experiences can act even on the unborn child. A recent study found that, at one year of age, the infants of women traumatized during their pregnancies by the 9/11 tragedy had abnormal blood levels of the stress hormone, cortisol.2 According to numerous human and animal studies, adverse early experiences may lead to permanent imbalances of essential brain chemicals that modulate mood and behavior.

Another signal may be shunning people and things they used to enjoy. Or your child may try to control his environment and the people around him in order to manage unbearable anxiety.

Parents today are afraid to discipline their kids. Why, I once smeared Brian with steak sauce and threatened to feed him to a wolverine because he forgot to say please. That's why he's the man that he is today!

OW: It doesn't matter whether you mind it or not—you do it. HJ: Some people do it, and some don't. OW: Yes. But I'm a terribly guilty-conscience person.

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.

Facino's vision of vast riches and the novelist's vision of the motives of human behavior are both attuned to the hidden, the dramatic, that, like Freud's analyses, suggest an erotic charge that animates the world. They may speak also of a power beyond what is permitted to humankind

They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and there is a correct and proper way to behave with other people. And I behaved improperly with John and feel bad, so I compensate by obsessing with language, which is easier to control than behavior.

C'è un modo corretto di usare le parole e c'è un modo corretto di comportarsi con gli altri. […] le parole sono più facili da controllare rispetto ai comportamenti. […] Credo che sia questo a farmi paura: la casualità di tutto. Persone che per te potrebbero essere importanti, ti passano accanto e se ne vanno. E tu fai altrettanto. Come si fa a saperlo?

We have, all of us, less control over our emotional states than we imagine, and not much more over our moral sensibilities.

Faith describes our whole way of looking at life and how we act on that.

If, in full conversation with the biblical and extrabiblical evidence, we can adjust our expectations about how the Bible should behave, we can begin to move beyond the impasse of the liberal/conservative debates of the last several generations.

Anyone who hangs out on social media at all knows how effortlessly it can bring out the worst in us. Not me, of course, but everyone else. I'm an angel.

I believe that God knows best what sort of sacred writing we need. And these three characteristic ways the Bible behaves, rather than posing problems to be overcome, are telling us something about how the Bible actually works and therefore what the Bible's true purpose is—and the need to align our expectations with it.

It helped that any sexual impulse he might have felt was effectively neutralized by her drinking. After the first hour of any evening, she was not a pleasant person to be around.

He knows it never works, so why does he always go for the same type? "Optimism!

The Olyix understand. You are new to sentience. Your behavior is still affected by your animal origin. You seek to advance yourselves at the expense of others." "As I said: a minority.

Christ, chief, what do they do to these people? Are we working for psychopaths

Learn the rules when you go abroad," Luca said forcefully. "And then live by them.

You are new to sentience. Your behaviour is still affected by your animal origin.

data became available from research that gave equal weight to both genetic and social influences on development.

lower levels of coordination are optimal for secure attachment and easy temperament;

Interpersonal interpretive processes that developmentally antedate mentalization appear to govern the behavior of individuals with BPD, at least within attachment relationships.

Disorganization of attachment may be the indication of exceptionally poor mentalization.