Shaping Behavior Quotes

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

We shape a building and thereafter the building shapes us.

Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape a child into the kind of adult you wanted. There's almost this kind of competitive enterprise. That picture is the picture I think people often imply when they use the word "parenting".

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

Music helps shape the way people think about the world and act in the world.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

Kids are a product of their environment.

Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.