5 Quotes About Self Regulation

A simple but important form of self-regulation is called metacognition — the ability to reflect on one’s own thoughts and beliefs, and to make decisions about them. Having the ability to effectively regulate one’s behavior is incredibly important for success in all areas of life, and can give us a feeling of control over our own lives. These quotes about self-regulation help you understand how to regulate your own behavior and manage your impulses.

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Cheating in relationship is a sign of self-regulation failure. When it happens ones, it is a mistake. When it happens twice, it is unfortunate. But when it happens thrice or more, it is a pattern indicating primitive, uncivilized inhuman behavior. Abhijit Naskar
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Study skills really aren't the point. Learning is about one's relationship with oneself and one's ability to exert the effort, self-control, and critical self-assessment necessary to achieve the best possible results--and about overcoming risk aversion, failure, distractions, and sheer laziness in pursuit of REAL achievement. This is self-regulated learning. Linda B. Nilson
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Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control. Abhijit Naskar
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Complexly traumatized children need to be helped to engage their attention in pursuits that do not remind them of trauma-related triggers and that give them a sense of pleasure and mastery. Safety, predictability, and "fun" are essential for the establishment of the capacity to observe what is going on, put it into a larger context, and initiate physiological and motoric self-regulation. Sarah Benamer