It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
Garrison KeillorAll cruelty springs from weakness.
SenecaTags: weakness character cruelty behavior
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.
Paulo CoelhoSometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.
Jillian MichaelsCultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
Malcolm GladwellTags: behavior cultural legacies
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.
Steven PinkerTags: thought patterns genes behavior temperments
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
Jacqueline CareyTags: math patterns behavior slow
Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give "permission" to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.
Mildred Armstrong KalishTags: reading read privilege chores prize permission adults behavior elders duties modification
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P.J. O'RourkeTags: humor appearance behavior being-exceptional
Handsome is as handsome does
J.R.R. TolkienTags: manners behavior handsomeness
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