“Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.” MotivationGoalFocusEasierBehaviorGuides Author:B. J. Fogg
“One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow.” WorldKindMadeFocusEffectsPossibilityPersonalityBehaviorMoodCocaine Author:George Carlin
“I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.” MadeMistakeFocusBehaviorAchievementDeedsDialogueGood DeedsMy MistakesExplicitBad Behavior Author:Leslye Headland
“If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO's behavior.” IfsSoundFocusHealthyBehaviorOrganizationCrucialCentsCeoReminders Author:Patrick Lencioni
“Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.” ShouldChildrenParentFocusBehaviorProgram Author:Timothy Carey
“By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological age, and tap into our inner reservoirs of unbounded energy, creativity, and love.” BodyAgeChoicesEnergyAttentionCreativityFocusBehaviorConsciousAnd LoveDecreaseReservoirs Author:Deepak Chopra
“For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.” UseAsksOpportunityEnergyUnderstandingFocusProductsBehaviorHeavyOddUsersConsumption Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.” PeopleMeanArtFactsSpiritualityHeavenSexFocusPaintingBehaviorArt IsAreasSongwritingParts Of Life Author:Bruce Cockburn
“The government ought to help out, because the average citizen can't go out and be doing reviews of the scientific literature. And focus on the processes that have low side effects and good long-term outcomes. Right now you're going to find those in the psychosocial area, in the therapy area, in the empirically supported treatments such as ACT or cognitive behavior therapy, behavior therapy. And go there first rather than going to the pill bottle as if it's going to be the end of your journey. Very often it's only going to help, and even only to a minor degree, and more is going to be needed.” HelpingLiteratureFocusJourneyBehaviorTherapyGood Long Author:Steven C. Hayes
“Having children changes your behavior. Your personality doesn't change, but you're more cautious of what you say and how you say it to start with-so that already changes things. My mind is not completely mine anymore. I used to be able to concentrate and achieve things. Now I find it much harder to focus, because it just seems that half your brain doesn't belong to you anymore. My kids are still little. Maybe it will change more when they're older, but I doubt it.” MindChildrenKidsBrainDoubtFocusAchievePersonalityBehaviorCautiousHaving Children Author:Vanessa Paradis
“I believe that the behavior of too many of our corporations investment bankers and fund managers has jeopardized some of the trust that investors have had. It's not the economic engine that we need to focus on, but the need to make sure that our investors receive their fair share of the returns that that great economic system produces.” BelieveI BelieveFocusShareEconomicBehaviorInvestmentFundInvestors Author:John C. Bogle
“I've moved away from writing about and describing actual experiences of sex work, whether mine or anybody else's, because the culture is obsessed with the behavior of sex workers. They want to figure out why they do what they do and who they are. What I'm trying to do is to shift the focus onto the producers of the anti-sex work discourse: the cops, the feminists, the anti-prostitution people. Those are the people whose behavior needs to change.” PeopleWritingTryingCultureFocusBehaviorMovedFeministProducersObsessedCop Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.” IfsWantShouldFirstsAttitudeFocusOur LivesBehaviorMaking Changes Author:Stephen Covey
“I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.” WantFirstsKindShowsRealityTurnsNextWhitePracticePathFocusNiceColorSceneShapesBehaviorShotsSittingBallsGreenGolfGrassSwingsShow MeLandingTrajectoryGreen GrassSitting Up Author:Jack Nicklaus