Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
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EVGENY MOROZOV I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.
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BILL WATTERSON I changed my priority from making money to positively impacting people.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
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JOE ORLANDO We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
METTRIE L. Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L. Life is full of endless possibilities.
METTRIE L. The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
METTRIE L. Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
METTRIE L. Everyone has psychic abilities. It's just a matter of tapping into it.
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METTRIE L. It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
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BUZZ OSBORNE cultural issues that manifest in the behavior of individuals and the policies of institutions becaus...
JO HANDELSMAN His behavior changed. He really wasn't the same when he was traded to Colorado (by the A's in 2001).
GARY ARTHUR Our findings suggest in breast-fed infants who are otherwise well, and where breast-feeding techniqu...
DAVID HILL We want Occidental Park to be a place where more people of all incomes gather, and where criminal be...
CRAIG MONTGOMERY A person can't be judged by his words, behavior or looks,
He can only be judged by their thoughts.
JAZZ GILL We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- an...
JOSHUA HARRIS i can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it.
MAYA ANGELOU Always focus on the solution, avoid being consumed by undesirable circumstances.
STEVEN REDHEAD It was judicial tyranny. If the constitution is changed, it can only be changed by a vote of the peo...
KRIS MINEAU The power to be able to purchase whatsoever you desire is by learning to always positively use the p...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is peop...
GINNI ROMETTY The key to all of your behaviors is hidden in a box that you can’t open using normal tools, your s...
GERARD ARMOND POWELL I came to believe...that it is vital to transform the world by changing the way people treat each ot...
ANNE MURRAY It changed her understanding of what's normative behavior, ... It changed her understanding of what'...
XAVIER AMADOR You can serve God with your gifts, talents and calling by serving humanity and impacting lives posit...
SUNDAY ADELAJA People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
MALCOLM X People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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JON KATZ They may control one form of behavior, but the problem is employees become deviant in other behavior...
TIMOTHY JUDGE A lot of enterprise behaviors are driven by consumers.
DENNIS TSU We must first positively influence and lead ourselves before we can positively influence or lead oth...
VIKRANT PARSAI Consequently, the cost per channel can be significantly reduced by using the eight-channel device.
CARL ALBERTY Life is a paradiddle...
R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
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ROSS R. MASON This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.
IAN MCEWAN When You Reward Bad Behavior Followed By Good Behavior, What You Get Is More Bad Behavior Followed B...
DONALD LYNN FROST The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controll...
ROBERT CONQUEST If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in ...
CRAIG JOHNSON Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Our values and behaviors are incongruent, and this incongruence causes us a certain degree of moral ...
MELANIE JOY You should call your insurance company and tell them, 'I've changed my driving behavior ? I've stopp...
BOB HUNTER A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
VINOBA BHAVE It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a...
PARKER POSEY Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
LUCILLE BALL The fundamentals haven't changed, which are that it is up to Iran to respond positively, cooperative...
ADAM ERELI Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for...
R. A. SALVATORE As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits...
MYRIAM MIEDZIAN Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Corsetry is a body modification.
DITA VON TEESE It can be costly to engage in that behavior.
DR. MARTIE HASELTON When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA “Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot b...
ASHISH KUMAR Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be c...
MAYA ANGELOU The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lif...
FRANCIS COLLINS However, China's police authority would not sit by and be apathetic and indifferent to law-violating...
LIU ZHENGRONG If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, whi...
AYELET WALDMAN Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.
KATHLEEN GLASGOW When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives hi...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives hi...
T.S. ELIOT l do desire we be better strangers
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear ...
ANTHONY KIEDIS You can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake.
-L (from Death Note)
TSUGUMI OHBA Anything that can be changed will be changed until there is no time left to change anything.
UNKNOWN Now happily married to Irene for over ten years, we clearly told the interviewer how homosexuality i...
STEPHEN BENNETT Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, b...
ROBERT BRESSON It's about time the Pac-10 was impacted positively by a hurricane,
TOM HANSEN Addiction is the process of using mind altering chemicals and behaviors to trick your brain into fee...
TERENCE T. GORSKI You may not be able to change people’s Actions, but you can choose your own Reactions. Always reac...
RVM I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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MAYA ANGELOU Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to in...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
JACQUELINE CAREY I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
SAM ALTMAN A public right cannot be changed by private agreement
LEGAL MAXIM This was a freak accident. The bad behavior can be unlearned.
GRAHAM BLOEM The only modification is carburetor or exhaust.
TERRY STEWART Now she is ignoring me as first
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DEYTH BANGER We have the big screen TV, whatever the hot game is, is on. And we can always determine our business...
DENISE MARTIN Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We have to change our behavior, ... We drink too much, smoke too much, eat the wrong foods and dont ...
ROBERT ATWELL Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.
PAUL R. SCHEELE I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sab...
SANDRA CISNEROS Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
PAT BROWN When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. Ther...
KENNETH KAMLER We have to change our behavior, ... We drink too much, smoke too much, eat the wrong foods and don...
ROBERT ATWELL A very lopsided and undesirable trade-off.
JOSEPH SENECA Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modificatio...
MILDRED ARMSTRONG KALISH Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Googl...
STEVEN MAGEE I ran a 'loan modification machine.'
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MICHAEL COATES You cannot remove the military option from the table, but it is a totally undesirable option and one...
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
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METTRIE L. Love conquers everything even karma.
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METTRIE L. The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
METTRIE L. Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
METTRIE L. Everyone has psychic abilities. It's just a matter of tapping into it.
METTRIE L. There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringin...
METTRIE L. It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
METTRIE L. Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modifi...
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L. L. NASH Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE Place your attention 6 inches above your crown.
God is breathing in and out there.
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L. SWETENHAM Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
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L. ESTRANGE Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world wil...
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BOB L. That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message.
BOB L. We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
BOB L. In the beginning, there was silence.
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MéLISSANDRE L. I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the p...
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L. ESTRANGE It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
L. ESTRANGE Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny...
L. ESTRANGE It’s a mistake to act as though we’re not created equal.
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PETER L. BERGER Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. MENCKEN Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit dau...
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RICHARD L. EVANS I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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SAMUEL L. JACKSON I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
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J. L. AUSTIN There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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J. L. AUSTIN Sentences are not as such either true or false.
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JACK L. WARNER I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I write novels and other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
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JACK L. CHALKER Decadence is wonderful.
JACK L. CHALKER I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
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JACK L. CHALKER First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea...
JACK L. CHALKER Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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R. L. STINE For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
D. L. HUGHLEY The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. DOCTOROW The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. MENCKEN A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MENCKEN Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
LOUISE L. HAY People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little,...
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P. L. TRAVERS My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
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P. L. TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
L. WOLFE GILBERT If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government ...
L. RON HUBBARD I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. RON HUBBARD A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in sc...
L. RON HUBBARD A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. RON HUBBARD One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I ...
L. RON HUBBARD A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of o...
L. RON HUBBARD I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went...
L. RON HUBBARD When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by d...
L. RON HUBBARD There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w...
L. RON HUBBARD