“To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.” KnowsWellsPersonsEnoughUnderstandingMistakeOpinionPerspectiveBehaviorAssumingTragicGrossEmerging Author:Meredith L. Young-Sowers
“No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.” ThinkingHumansUseAgeLosesHuman BeingsShareTheoryPerspectiveBehaviorArgumentSightSillyEnormousTwelveEmergingFreezeSuitableNineteenBakersSillinessEclairs Author:Anna Quindlen
“My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine, or the pilot. I wanted to give the reader something of the visual perspective and feeling of the guy under fire, his apprehensions and sufferings, his tensions and releases, his behavior in the presence of threatening death.” IfsGivingFeelingsEyeWantedGuySufferingFirePerspectiveReaderBehaviorObjectivesReleaseTensionVisualsPilotsThreateningMarineApprehensionThrough The EyesInfantryman Author:David Douglas Duncan
“Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors. We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them. This movie shows that perspective from Scott's character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It's a nice little twist.” PeopleKnowsChildrenLittlesCharacterHelpingShowsCarePastNiceGenerationsPerspectiveNeededBehaviorOur ChildrenHistoricalTraumaTake CareHealOur FutureGrandchildrenTwistsAmerican IndianPast Generations Author:Adam Beach
“For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if other people were doing the same thing. That's what happens when you suddenly have a critical perspective on your own behavior.” PeopleIfsWritingLongHappensWonderNovelPerspectiveBehaviorLong TimeCriticalTrendsKillersSerialsSerial KillerReally Long Author:Lucy Corin
“You want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.” PeopleWayWantHumansKidsSidesTeachHuman NatureHonestyPerspectiveSkillsConflictBehaviorEmpathyAppreciateDisagreement Author:Ross W. Greene
“It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.” PersonsSelfHumanityLevelsStepsAwarenessPerspectiveBehaviorSelf AwarenessConnecting Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“For a very long time, people have been saying to me, "What if you want to do this approach with every kid?" For a behaviorally challenging kid, you're parenting this way just to help bring the kid's behavior under control and to greatly reduce conflict. But you want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.” PeopleLongHelpingKidsChallengesTeachHuman NatureHonestyPerspectiveConflictBehaviorEmpathyAppreciateWhat IfDisagreement Author:Ross W. Greene
“I think aging is underrated. As you grow older, you have perspective and you realize just how fortunate you are to be working. To be working with the people I've had the chances to work with, I honestly feel like the most fortunate person in the world. I think it's hugely important when you work to bring with you that spirit, which includes and immense sense of gratitude. How that translates into behavior is just to bring your energy, your good spirit and your appreciation, and do your homework and really listen to the person in front of you.” PeopleThinkingWorldImportantSpiritEnergyRealizingChancePerspectiveGratitudeBehaviorAgingAppreciationHonestlyTranslateHomework Author:Ann Dowd
“Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.” PeopleTryingHumansShowsPastTimePowerfulInfluencePerspectiveBehaviorPrejudiceMost PowerfulHuman BehaviorSocial PsychologyBiasedPast Present Author:Philip Zimbardo
“We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.” WayShouldMotivationalGrowsAttitudeHumilityPerspectiveBehaviorAssumingIntelligenceAssumptionPositive Behavior Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition