Influencing Behavior Quotes

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

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.

Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Propaganda tries to surround man by all possible routes in the realm of feelings as well as ideas, by playing on his will or on his needs, through his conscious and his unconscious, assailing him in both his private and his public life. It furnishes him with a complete system for explaining the world, and provides immediate incentives to action.

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen.

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating

Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?

If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they're likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.