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“Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.”

Motivational Emotion Behavior Connections Increase Loved Ones Indulge Yelling Indulge In Likelihood

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.”

Children Age Grows Growing Up Childhood Cry Baby Behavior Increase Hated Geese Nephew Niece

Book:A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

“Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.”

Thinking Action Next Behavior Increase Reducing Likelihood

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.”

Humans Two Action Motivation Company Behavior Increase Psychological Ease Performing Human Behavior Likelihood Pulleys

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.”

Doe States Sides Gratitude Behavior Increase Guilt Injustice Generosity Welfare Loser Both Sides Hostility Compensation Inadequate Admission Welfare State Reparations Largesse

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.”

Wells Doe Force Chance Creation Behavior Increase Independent Independence Sake Financial Guides Artistic Syndromes Financial Independence Mimicry Artistic Creation

Author:Fady Joudah

“What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.”

“Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not a reality for others. But out of such susceptibilities come feelings, and feelings are controllable. If we cater to the feelings, they increase the power of the temptation. If we yield to the temptation, we have committed sinful behavior. That pattern is the same for a person that covets someone else's property and has a strong temptation to steal. It's the same for a person that develops a taste for alcohol.”

Ifs Persons Feelings Reality Strong Taste Behavior Increase Property Patterns Committed Alcohol Stealing Temptation Yield Homosexual Inclination Susceptibility

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.”

Knows World Inspirational Long Character Lord Integrity Behavior Increase Devotion Gods Will Godly Alone With God

Author:Charles Stanley

“It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.”

Inspirational Motivational Actors Individual Views Acting Attitude Greater Talent Personality Behavior Capacity Experience Increase Point Of View Coaches Human Behavior Evoke

Book:Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques