Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what people believe about the intuition of dogs, your intuitive abilities are vastly superior (and given that you add to your experience… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, rapport-building has a far better reputation than it deserves. It is perceived as admirable when in fact it is almost always done… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Every day, people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in mid-thought, victims of violence and accidents. So when we wonder… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“When young, they are attached by heavy chains to large stakes driven deep into the ground. They pull and yank and strain and struggle,… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it,” — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and government have proved that no matter what your resources, you cannot reliably control the conduct of crazy… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“A Natural History of the Senses, author Diane Ackerman says, “The brain is a good stagehand. It gets on with its work while we’re… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Unlike when people lived in small communities and could not escape their past behavior, we live in an age of anonymous one-time encounters, and… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness.” — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
