Quotes About Changing Behavior

#1. We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Bill Gates

#2. When I explain to parents that the research shows clearly that a one-minute time-out is sufficient for changing behavior and that we gain nothing but problems with much longer durations,

Alan E. Kazdin

#3. Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.

Barry Schwartz

#4. Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior - and changing behavior is hard.

Keith Ferrazzi

#5. Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

John P. Kotter

#6. The foundation of changing behavior is linking rewards to performance and making the linkages transparent.

Larry Bossidy

#7. Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

Marc Morial

#8. The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.

Terry Gross

#9. One soul at a time, one book at a time, the goal of changing racist actions and behavior as described in my book, FAMILY SECRETS: A JOURNEY OF GOD AND EVIL.

Fran White

#10. Changing organizations comes down to changing human behavior.

Gregory P. Shea

#11. We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Henry Cloud

#12. Understanding who you are within leads to changing a man's value and behavior

Sunday Adelaja

#13. One bully changing their behavior for the better can have a profound effect on many, many lives.

Hunter King

#14. You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

Graham Cooke

#15. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. ROMANS 12:2 NLT

Various

#16. Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions.' Recurring and consistent performance results from behavior change will lead to lasting changes in the way people feel, think, and believe in the long run.

Jon Katzenbach

#17. ...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.

Terrence Real

#18. As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

John C. Maxwell

#19. In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

A.S.A Harrison

#20. Each of us can and must shift our behavior according to our ability. For some, that means changing diet, shopping locally, or putting solar panels on their house. For others, it means using their voice to inspire transformative change.

James Balog

#21. Listen: it's got to be all honeymoon, always.
Either heaven, or hell:
no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between
for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance
or shame or repentance overtakes us.

William Faulkner

#22. The hardest part of continuous improvement in organizations is changing the behavior of other people.

Jurgen Appelo

#23. Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.

Louis Tice

#24. Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone's behavior.

Nick Saban

#25. Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

Ruben Ostlund

#26. After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

Marshall Goldsmith

#27. We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.

David Bohm

#28. Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.

Stephen Jay Gould

#29. The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

Milton H. Erickson

#30. T.J. seemed older than seventeen. Reserved almost. Maybe facing serious health problems eliminated some of the immature behavior that presented itself when you had nothing more to worry about than getting your driver's license, cutting class, or breaking curfew.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#31. The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

B.F. Skinner

#32. It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

Bob Nelson

#33. We can change by changing our attitudes and patterns of behavior. In so doing, we change our destiny.

Isabel M. Hickey

#34. The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

John P. Kotter

#35. We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code.

Billy Graham

#36. A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.

Marianne Williamson

#37. We have this revolution that's happening in our lifetime. The Information Revolution is changing absolutely every industry and every part of life and society and behavior.

Pete Cashmore

#38. Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

Albert Speer

#39. Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.

Jose Ferreira

#40. At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

Charles Duhigg

#41. The nineteenth century is called the century of hygiene, and the twentieth is the century of medicine. The twenty-first century may be the century of behavioral change. Changing everyday, long-term behaviors
how we exercise, what we eat
is the key to adding years and quality to our lives.

Michael Stein

#42. The normal experience of the body and its aging is a conditioned response (a habit of thinking and behavior). By changing your habits of thinking and behavior, you can change the experience of your body and its aging

Deepak Chopra

#43. I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.

Billy Porter