repeated behavior Quotes

It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

If I play one psychic, then I'm playing a psychic at least three or four more times.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night.

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

I'm always saying I won't get involved with an actor again, but then I realize how silly that is. The men I meet most often are actors.

Habit had made the custom.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

I have a brother who gives socks for Christmas. He gives socks. Every year, I get a pair of socks from him.

Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.

Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

Consistency shows value. It breeds trust. You know that I'm going to show up every week.