#behavior

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#behavior #course #due #evident #factor

Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must be competent without fault. You may become enthralled with your identity as a professional, even the pressures of the culture of mastery that expects you to heal your clients without fail. Never mind all of the variables over which you have no control, it is up to you, according to the canons of mastery, to control the health and well-being of those for whom you provide professional care. This potentiates a furthering alienation between you and your clients. You are at risk to become, if you have not already, the one who does to your clients; to be the one the active subject acting upon the passive and receptive objects, your clients; to be the one in possession of special knowledge, technique and mastery. All of this conspires to coax or coerce you into treating your client as reduced, a mere case. Unawareness to these influences gives you little chance to consider their influence on your practice in the clinical setting, much less give attentive efforts to resist or change them. ↗

— Scott E. Spradlin

#dbt #dialectical-behavior-therapy #luce-irigaray #mastery #mental-health

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it. ↗

— Howard Barker

#behavior #dangerous #dark #dark place #giving

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#logic #mind #psychology #life

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior. ↗

— Robert Ludlum

#best #enter #human #human behavior #i

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge. ↗

— Roy Moore

#judge #might #object #opinions #some

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people. ↗

— Andre Norton

#because #behavior #cats #creative #creative people

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.' ↗

— Demetri Martin

#about #be nice #behavior #chased #day

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#behavior #fact #feelings #give #good

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#act #behavior #conscious #conscious decision #decision