Behavior Quotes - Page 19

• We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

  B. F. Skinner

  Mutation, Reinforcement, Natural

  B.F Skinner (1965). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.

  Wendell Pierce

  Mad, Trying, Abhorrent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.

  Wendell Pierce

  Study, Accepting, Should

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

  Nir Eyal

  Thinking, Next, Action

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.30, Penguin

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• Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.

  Nir Eyal

  Motivation, Two, Ease

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.9, Penguin

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• Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

  Jo Beverley

  Memories, People, Doubt

  Jo Beverley (2005). “A Most Unsuitable Man”, p.23, Penguin

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• Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

  Jack Welch

  Attitude, Perception, Energy

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• Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.

  Luc Sante

  Self, Criminals, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that shame can be used for all sorts of good in society. An example of this is smoking: When someone lights up around a crowd, people now usually say something. So I don't understand why it's not OK to apply the same logic to other behaviors.

  Keli Goff

  Light, People, Smoking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

  Steven Bochco

  Shooting, Kind, Triggers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Sleep, Ukraine, Europe

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

  Pam Grier

  Hate, Generations, Counseling

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual

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• Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

  Carly Fiorina

  Conscious, Performances

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• It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Wise, Divorce, Example

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• Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child.

  Price Pritchett

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Pritchett, Price (1990). “You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps”, Pritchett & Associates

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• When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

  Susan Jeffers

  Self, World, Plant

  Susan Jeffers (1993). “Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace”, Ballantine Books

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• Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Gang, Harder, Percent

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• What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

  Wilbert J. McKeachie

  Interesting, Students

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• Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Self, Important, Fundamentals

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• As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teenager, Real, Thinking

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• It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

  Kevin Lowe

  Leader, Quality, Followers

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• I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Tasks, Busy, Organizational

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I plead - that it's very difficult when you deal with - ISIS and organizations like that whose - whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious - that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power. And that's very difficult to put ourselves in other shoes.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, Shoes, Organization

  Hillary Clinton's speech on foreign policy and domestic issues at the Democratic presidential debate at Drake University in Iowa hosted by the CBS News, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.

  David D. Burns

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Source: time.com

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