Behavioral Issues Quotes

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

What is your major malfunction?

There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.

Somebody who attacks everybody has something missing.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

I never had any doubts about my ability. The problem was getting into so many scrapes because of my erratic temperament.

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

I was privileged in terms of where I grew up, and I come from a very loving, supportive household. But when I began to go off the rails at boarding school, my behaviour wasn't a result of an upbringing but more something that was going on within me.

I was quite disruptive and out there. Then I found myself in a load of remedial classes being told how to use a ruler. But when they tested my IQ, they found out I was quite intelligent.

My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I've been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don't really look outside for stories.

Miserable people tend to act out.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence, behavioral.

The kid in me has ADD.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

I've got an addictive personality.

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an asshole.

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.