Behavior Modification Quotes

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

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

You must change your life.

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

With a dog, people are not disciplined. They think that by spoiling a dog the dog is going to love them more. But the dog misbehaves more because they give affection at the wrong time.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.

None of us are naïve enough to believe that moving around boxes on organization charts will change behavior. You have to change culture.

I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.

I just don't believe people can tame animals.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.