Will Rogers Quotes

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

The question is the propriety of how we go about influencing and changing behavior.

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

People's minds can change very quickly.

I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.

I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.