Fogg's Quotes

#1. Fogg's most salient quality as an employee was his ability to be present while she fetched a sandwich. Beyond this, he contributed little that could be quantified.

Tom Rachman

#2. People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.

B. J. Fogg

#3. Monsieur is going to leave home?" "Yes," returned Phileas Fogg. "We are going round the world.

Jules Verne

#4. It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

Jules Verne

#5. He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days

Jules Verne

#6. The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

William Fogg Osgood

#7. Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club

Jules Verne

#8. Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don't focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

B. J. Fogg

#9. Aouda fastened her great eyes, "clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya," upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at all inclined to throw himself into this lake.

Jules Verne

#10. Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

B. J. Fogg

#11. One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.

Jules Verne

#12. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

Jules Verne

#13. Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

Nir Eyal

#14. Expectations is an anchor, a heavy burden every man if the first carry and then overcome if he is to ever to reach the shorelines of his dreams.

Peter S. Fogg

#15. But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence, ...

Jules Verne

#16. Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

B. J. Fogg

#17. Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing

B. J. Fogg

#18. Four years ago, he'd nearly married. But his girlfriend went to do theater in London and met a new man there. They'd stayed friends, till she sent photos of her newborn. "When you open the baby-photo email," Fogg said, "it's like your friends waving goodbye.

Tom Rachman

#19. Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.

Jules Verne

#20. Never trust the green M&Ms. The aren't very nice.

K.L. Fogg

#21. Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing.

Jules Verne

#22. Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

B. J. Fogg

#23. Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

William Fogg Osgood

#24. Passepartout.' 'Passepartout suits me,' responded Mr. Fogg. 'You are well recommended to me; I hear a good report of you. You know my conditions?' 'Yes, monsieur.' 'Good! What time is it?' 'Twenty-two minutes after eleven,' returned Passepartout, drawing

Anonymous

#25. The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

William Fogg Osgood

#26. Fellows are just naturally interested in a good piece of work and have no unnatural restrictions in looking it over. Perhaps, and may the sahibs of the Fogg forgive me for thinking it, this simple, curious outlook of healthy men is more important than some of the monuments themselves.

Robert M. Edsel

#27. Design your site so it looks professional

B. J. Fogg

#28. Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

B. J. Fogg

#29. Think positive. Envision your rest as you become more deprived. Envision your success as you endure more failure. Do not fuel despair with false truth. Instead, battle despair with hope.

Peter S. Fogg

#30. Expectation is an anchor, a heavy burden every man is to first carry and then overcome if he is to ever reach the shorelines of his dreams.

Peter S. Fogg