changing behavior Quotes

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.

I think people are getting more and more comfortable - watching content at home is blurring that line, because people are getting used to watching movies at home.

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.

The thing that actually makes a guy settle down is when a woman comes along who has a different set of standards than the other women he's met. Then she immediately becomes unique.

It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

I don't actually go to newsstands anymore.

Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.

When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

Mia,” Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. “You’re starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.

I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

Don't try to fix anyone, especially not a dude. They're not going to change.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.