Behavior Quotes
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Whenever a person repeats the same behavior pattern over and over, you can be certain that the person derives many emotional benefits from it.
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The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.
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Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
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To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.
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Despite the well-documented effects of anger, fear, and anxiety on the ability to reason, many programs continue to ignore the need to engage the safety system of the brain before trying to promote new ways of thinking. The last things that should be cut from school schedules are chorus, physical education, recess, and anything else involving movement, play, and joyful engagement. When children are oppositional, defensive, numbed out, or enraged, it’s also important to recognize that such “bad behavior” may repeat action patterns that were established to survive serious threats, even if they are intensely upsetting or off-putting.
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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
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The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
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If you seek to correct a subordinate’s overall behavior or performance, start by telling them what they do well, then tell them where they need to improve.
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Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be used to explain everything.
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Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
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When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Belief forms behavior.
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Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.
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I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.
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I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.
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Since emotional regulation is the critical issue in managing the effects of trauma and neglect, it would make an enormous difference if teachers, army sergeants, foster parents, and mental health professionals were thoroughly schooled in emotional-regulation techniques. Right now this still is mainly the domain of preschool and kindergarten teachers, who deal with immature brains and impulsive behavior on a daily basis and who are often very adept at managing them.
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Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.
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Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
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I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course, there are any number of variations in marital relationships between those extremes. But there is always a need for spouses to change their behaviors or habits to suit each other. I have always been set in my ways and did not fancy changing my behavior or lifestyle.
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The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
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I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.
