“Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.” IfsWantEffortGraceBehaviorRootsBottomDrivenManageWeedSprouts Author:Matt Chandler
“The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.” ThinkingMindSoulEffortBehaviorOvercomingPatternsObstaclesResistanceImpulseAtmosphereRestrictionBrillianceOffspringInsurmountableCreativeness Author:Eric Hoffer
“People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions” PeopleActionBeliefLevelsResultsEffortEffectsBehaviorConsequenceDistributionSelf Efficacy Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.” ProblemProcessEffortStudyDesignProductsActivityBehaviorResearchEvolveUsersClientsOngoingRespondingDiscreteSpecificationsResearch StudyContinually Learning Author:Dan Brown
“Unfair and unkind behavior in exchange for your loving efforts is the rule rather than the exception” EffortBehaviorExceptionUnfairUnkind Author:Paul Hauck
“Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to change a deeply ingrained pattern, you have to build a sturdy dam, dig another canal and reroute the river in the new direction. That effort is rarely successful over the long haul.” LongRunningOrderDifficultEffortSuccessfulCuttingChildhoodBehaviorRiversPatternsHaulDamsEarly ChildhoodCanalsSturdyNew DirectionsLong Haul Book:Life on the Edge Source: Life on the Edge
“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.” IfsWantWritingYearsBelieveHumansReadingEasyForgetPleasureEffortTalkingPracticeAmountWalkingTruth IsActivityBehaviorEatingPerformancesFundamentalsInstantExpertsGratificationTemptingHuman ActivityReading And WritingTuningInstant Gratification Author:Donald A. Norman
“Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.” BelieveHeartMayDoeSelfMatterDoneRememberEvilInterestEffortMoralProducePrideSelf LoveBehaviorGratefulMereDrivenMotiveCollapseGood WorkSelf InterestJuryTissuesDamnationObeyingMatter Of TimeRigsDisobeyingMoral Behavior Author:Timothy Keller
“When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.” IfsTryingYearsRememberResultsEffortHabitBehaviorTwentiesPatientStartingThirtyFortyLastingTake TimeBe PatientTrying To ChangeOld Habits Author:Darren Hardy
“Just like you, your partner wants to be loved for who they are, in spite of their shortcomings. Make an effort to let them know they are loved, even if some of their behavior is not. Work towards co-creative solutions.” IfsKnowsWantEffortCreativeLike YouBehaviorSolutionsPartnersSpiteShortcomingsCreative Solutions Author:Arielle Ford
“My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there is much that we can learn from each other. In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.” WorldFactsEffortEssentialsBehaviorIntellectualThirdsPracticalsDepartmentEndeavorInitiativeConsideringColleaguesThird WorldPublic HealthMichiganHealth Education Author:Ruth Simmons
“I have never in my life seen a more petty, childish, bitter, soon-to-be ex-president of the United States. Barack Obama is in fact participating in this effort to undermine the Trump transition, the Trump election, and the Trump presidency. And it's unprecedented in U.S. history. Ex-presidents have never engaged in the kind of behavior Obama is engaging in.” KindStatesFactsPresidentUnitedEffortUnited StatesTrumpBehaviorElectionBitterBarackEngagedTransitionPresidencyEngagingExesPettyUnprecedentedParticipating Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at it dispassionately, ask what happened during World War I. What was the typical behavior of respected intellectuals in Germany, England, the United States? What happened to those who publicly questioned the nobility of the war effort, on both sides? I do not think the answers are untypical.” ThinkingWorldShouldLooksWarStatesEnoughMomentsAbleAsksSidesAnswersUnitedEffortUnited StatesHappenedCivilizationBehaviorEnglandWesternWar Of The WorldsGermanyWorld War ITypicalBoth SidesNobilityWestern Civilization Author:Noam Chomsky
“Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking Gaza and declaring that there be no further diplomatic process - will lead to strong regional and global reactions, as well as intensify efforts at the UN and in civil society to brand Israel as an outlaw state dangerous to regional and world peace and guilty of criminal behavior.” WorldWellsEndsStatesMovingStrongProcessEffortDangerousConflictBehaviorWestIsraelCriminalsReactionsGuiltyBrandsPalestinianCivil SocietyDiplomaticOutlawGazaDeclaringCriminal Behavior Author:Richard A. Falk
“There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not on some absolute value. That's one of the reasons behavioral scientists have to be really good statisticians.” HumansReasonLyingValuesEffortBehaviorFindingsResearchScientistAbsolutesRelevantNurtureComponentsHuman ExperiencePercentagesStatistician Author:John Medina
“I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot of imaginative effort to figure out how people lived in an era that is not yours. And in that understanding of people from a different era, I feel, is an important gateway into humanity. Because you understand human behavior. In order to understand humanity, history is important.” PeopleNeedsFeelsHumansImportantDifferentHumanityOrderUnderstandingImaginationEffortFiguresDisciplineBehaviorErasHuman BehaviorImaginativeGatewaysDifferent Eras Author:Sarnath Banerjee
“I think that we see some cities that have developed living wage ordinances. I think that we see some efforts to actually put real restrictions on unscrupulous behavior by creditors. I think that the Consumer Finance Agency is a reflection of a political reaction to the abuses behind the financial disaster. I hope the system will continue to react.” ThinkingRealPoliticalEffortBehaviorReflectionAbuseFinancialDisasterFinance Author:Martha Minow
“It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.” PeopleNeedsFeelsHelpingEasyEffortResponsibilityCostBehaviorHarderAccomplishGods WillGreat ThingsSettlingTaking ResponsibilityObedient Author:Joyce Meyer
“When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I could not do many of the things that most people take for granted, such as looking someone in the eye or deciphering a person's body language, and only acquired these skills with much effort over time.” PeopleChildrenPersonsBodyEyeLanguageSocialEffortSkillsBehaviorIntelligentGrantedLabelsBody LanguageRepetitiveAnti Social Author:Daniel Tammet
“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.” PeopleHumansSeemsDifficultChallengesEffortVirtueDoubtImpossibleRiskGroupsBehaviorExpectationsUnderstoodConsequenceTasksPerformancesImportanceConstantAccomplishDefinedAccomplishmentNo DoubtUnderestimateHuman BehaviorEarnestMundaneDiligencePrerequisitesDifficult ChallengesGreat Accomplishment Author:Atul Gawande
“Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened or harassed by others, confident that his or her efforts will be recognized, and aware that the nonproductive soldier will be invited to leave. In such an environment, soldiers will be proud of their units and will demonstrate that pride with their performance and behavior.” WantEffortEnvironmentPrideProudBehaviorPerformancesArmyVery GoodSoldierSecureOrganizedUnitsThreatenedBe ProudInvitedGood Soldiers Author:William A. Connelly