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Quotes About Misbehavior

I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.
~ Ray Winstone
I got kicked out of school because I was wilding.
~ J.I.D
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
~ Charles Lamb
Le regard mauvais , Calebow quitta un instant le chien des yeux pour s'adresser à elle. - Si elle me pisse dessus , je la transforme en descente de lit.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The world has a talent for rewarding bad behavior with stardom
~ Neal Shusterman
All kids misbehave. Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes. Does it become an occasion for judgement of their character or an occasion for teaching?
~ Carol S. Dweck
I didn't notice my parents' split because I was off doing my own thing. I was very naughty.
~ Keeley Hazell
Man's the bad child of the universe
~ James Oppenheim
I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
~ Macaulay Culkin
Afailure is the misbehavior of the program, resulting from the program encountering a fault. Failures occur
~ Cem Kaner
I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.
~ Christina Ricci
I wasn't stealing cars at like, six. But I've always been bad.
~ Danielle Bregoli
He's got gas," Aaron explained, his voice muffled by the hand still over his face. "It happens when he eats stuff he's not supposed to." "It's vile," Camael said, glaring at the dog. "Something should be done so that it never happens again.
~ Thomas E. Sniegoski
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
~ Christopher Buckley
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
~ Charles Lamb
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other; on the contrary, they breed and reinforce each other. Punishment does not deter misconduct. It makes the offender more skillful in escaping detection. When children are punished they resolve to be more careful, not more obedient or responsible. Parents
~ Haim G. Ginott
Unfortunately, when parents are confronted with children's misbehavior, they are unaware that usually disturbing feelings fuel that behavior. Feelings must be dealt with before behavior can be improved. As
~ Haim G. Ginott
Without recognizing the belief behind the behavior, some adults react to the behavior with some kind of punishment, such as blaming, shaming, or inflicting physical pain. This kind of response only confirms a student's belief that he or she doesn't belong, creating a vicious cycle that leads to more misbehavior. In this cycle the student's deep need for belonging, contribution, and skills is not being addressed at all.
~ Jane Nelsen
Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits.
~ Andrew Shaffer
A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents disciplined their children. Children, they found, were more empathic when the discipline included calling strong attention to the distress their misbehavior caused someone else: "Look how sad you've made her feel" instead of "That was naughty.
~ Daniel Goleman
The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.
~ Daniel Pink
Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.
~ Laurence Steinberg
Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty.
~ Christianna Brand
Why is ADHD so much more common in the United States today than it was 30 or 40 years ago? And why is it so much more common today in the United States than elsewhere? My answer is "the medicalization of misbehavior.
~ Leonard Sax