Behavioral Adjustment Quotes

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

No conventions and covenants can remake human nature in a day.

All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.

An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

The country is called to the practice of new customs. The walls and surfaces must be cleaned. But minds too must be cleansed, for that is where the error was born.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

I do think once I get into expectations, I've just trained myself. I've just trained myself to just move on to the next.

If … corruption is a cultural problem, providing institutional frameworks to combat the problem will do little to redress it …. One cannot redress cultural ailments with a structural remedy.