Behavior Quotes - Page 37

• If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

  John Medina

  Yelling, Brain, Purpose

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and spending patterns - the accumulation of a day's purchases, or spending over a week or a year. A curious mind asks the questions that open up the consumer to talk about her latent dissatisfactions, hopes, wishes, and dreams.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Dream, Years, Mind

  Michael J. Silverstein, Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, Rohan Sajdeh (2015). “Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth”, p.6, McGraw Hill Professional

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• For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Opportunity, Focus, Understanding

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• Consumers cannot think in abstractions. They cannot envision a new concept. They cannot predict their behavior. They can only compare against their current frame of reference. So you need to make the big leap for them. You need to provide them with a reason to buy, a reason to brag to their friends. Expect new-to-the-world ideas to fall on deaf ears. Consumers will, however, change their tune when they can see, touch, and explore.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Fall, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.

  Bill Capodagli

  Organization, Belief, Significant

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume. As a filmmaker, whenever I get that feeling, I want to explore what motivates people to engage in such offensive behavior and enlighten folks about its origins.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Color, White, Hair

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.

  Stanton Peele

  People, Littles, Chance

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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).

  Stanton Peele

  Support, Abuse, Events

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's why we admire them," they are encouraging terribly detrimental behavior. You might even say - a la Roman gladiators - they are egging on this behavior.

  Stanton Peele

  Football, Dog, Fighting

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Congress, Members

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

  Octavia Spencer

  Behavior Change, Doe, Might

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can spread. One violent act can elicit a response. It can spread to people in a peer group so that they feel that they have to respond. It can pass generation to generation almost like a genetic disease.

  Steven James

  Sex, Violent Acts, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Children, Past, Play

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.199, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Order, Useless

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I don't believe in ever putting a dog down for behavior issues, because that's just punishing the dog for something wrong that humans did.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Believe, Issues

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their basic national aims, their just national aspirations, without violence. Unfortunately, the behavior of the Sharon administration, and before this of the Barak administration, has shown the Palestinians the opposite: namely, that they will achieve nothing without violence.

  Uri Avnery

  Party, Responsibility, Israel

  Source: progressive.org

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• Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Art, Sex, Mean

  Source: progressive.org

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• The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

  Reid Hoffman

  Powerful, Land, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Wise, Believe, Character

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We're not served by only knowing our finest hours through film or media, or in the history that we are taught. I think the only way we have a chance to not make the same mistakes again, is to historically understand the bad behavior and mistakes we've made previously.

  David Oyelowo

  Mistake, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and categorizations, and exclusions, and so forth. So neurotypical is the word that we now have to use for what I call normal behavior. Neurotypical behaviors are those kinds of behaviors within the range of usual human conduct that do not rise to the level of a disorder.

  Darold Treffert

  Usual, Use, Levels

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.

  Darold Treffert

  Autism, Disease, Way

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• The term syndrome generally appears to be a constellation, or collection, of similar traits or behaviors within an individual. So, savants do have sort of a constellation of symptoms, which is characterized by some spectacular skill, or skills, coupled with this massive memory which is grafted on to some underlying disability. So those three conditions quantify, in my mind, the term syndrome.

  Darold Treffert

  Memories, Skills, Mind

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.

  Darold Treffert

  Thinking, Autism, Particular

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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