Top 1200 Behavior Modification Quotes & Sayings

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.

Corsetry is a body modification.

Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.

When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.

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.'

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.

True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel.

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs for my ADD or bipolarism or depression or whatever they're calling being alive and feeling royally screwed these days.

It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.

When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.

I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

I ran a 'loan modification machine.'

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

Tastes and behavior are important in economics. Nobody denies that. But the question is: How much of behavior is irrational, and how much of the irrational behavior really affects prices? It turns out that's very difficult to answer.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life