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Rock climbers and long-distance ocean swimmers will tell you it isn't the mountain or the water that kills - it is panic
— Gavin De Becker
An unhappy child not getting comfort or support at home will look for it somewhere else. Next
— Gavin De Becker
In America, a woman is killed by a spouse every two hours.
— Gavin De Becker
Most human predators, however, seek power, not food. To destroy or damage something is to take its power.
— Gavin De Becker
In fact, if perceived as a rude woman, you are far less attractive a target than a polite one.
— Gavin De Becker
That's what happens when you're angry at people. You make them part of your life. - Garrison Keillor In
— Gavin De Becker
I don't believe in such a thing as the criminal mind. Everyone's mind is criminal; we're all capable of criminal fantasies and thoughts.
— Gavin De Becker
No is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you.
— Gavin De Becker
Those people we are willing to suspect are inherently less dangerous than those we refuse to suspect. We
— Gavin De Becker
The value of threats is determined by our reaction.
— Gavin De Becker
Don't just declutter, de-own.
— Joshua Becker
building prisons is our number one social program for young men
— Gavin De Becker
So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.
— Gavin De Becker
Usually, they have to attach a tentacle to someone else before detaching all the tentacles from their current object.
— Gavin De Becker
I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
— Gavin De Becker
Those who are good will qualify themselves.
— Gavin De Becker
Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.
— Gavin De Becker
when a victim tells her story and people respond with You-should-have-this or You-should-never-have-that, they are often adding to the victimization.
— Gavin De Becker
There is no mystery of human behavior that cannot be solved inside your head or your heart.
— Gavin De Becker
Threats betray the speaker by proving that he has failed to influence events in any other way. Most often they represent desperation, not intention.
— Gavin De Becker
Does he do all this with evil design? No, it is part of his concept of how to retain love.
— Gavin De Becker
When you remove time," de becker says, "you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction
— Malcolm Gladwell
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
— Gavin De Becker
I've heard many times that people would make a comment, 'This looks like a bomb,' and still open it. That's one for the psychologists to answer.
— Gavin De Becker
Avoid being in the presence of someone who might do you harm.
— Gavin De Becker
Your suspicion alone is more than enough justification for preventing time alone with your child. You
— Gavin De Becker
MEN WHO CANNOT LET GO CHOOSE WOMEN WHO CANNOT SAY NO.
— Gavin De Becker
Their lives are literally on the line in ways men just don't experience.
— Gavin De Becker
A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years.
— Gavin De Becker
You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
— Gavin De Becker
If you tell someone ten times that you don't want to talk to him, you are talking to them - nine more times than you wanted to.
— Gavin De Becker
The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality
— Gavin De Becker
Intuition is always right in at least two important ways;It is always in response to something.
it always has your best interest at heart — Gavin De Becker
I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.
— Gavin De Becker
You'll be thinking of me. You may not be thinking good thoughts, but you'll be thinking of me.
— Gavin De Becker
Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it,
— Gavin De Becker
Safety is the preeminent concern of all creatures and it clearly justifies a seemingly abrupt and rejecting response from time to time.
— Gavin De Becker
No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.
— Gavin De Becker
Learned that the time after a major incident offered a period of safety and the best rest,
— Gavin De Becker
violence is committed by people who look and act like people,
— Gavin De Becker
I have had a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
— Gavin De Becker
The unsolicited promise is one of the most reliable signals because it is nearly always of questionable motive.
— Gavin De Becker
(if you never make a decision, you can't make a mistake). It
— Gavin De Becker
We want recognition, not accomplishment.
— Gavin De Becker
A woman is expected, first and foremost, to respond to every communication from a man.
— Gavin De Becker
Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.
— Gavin De Becker
