Modeling Behavior Quotes

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.

To teach their children how to show themselves grace in the face of a challenge, I coach parents to model self-compassion in the face of everyday setbacks.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.

Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

Followers are always watching what you do. And people do what people see! If you are a leader seeking to make your vision come alive, then there is no better way to accomplish this than by living it: Modeling your expectations, setting the example by your actions, and showing the way through leading. Your followers, who are watching, will see in you the living picture of the vision, and you will produce the energy, motivation and passion to keep it going.

I never really modeled my game after anybody.

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that everything I've done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don't want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior.

I don't model myself on just one person because I don't think that's healthy.

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

Taking care of your mental health is important, and being able to model that for queer people who are out there every day dealing with their own struggles is very significant.