“Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.” ThinkingWantMindEyeActionResultsPowerfulBehaviorPerformers Author:Charles Garfield
“I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.” MenHumansPersonsBeliefViewsPowerfulAcceptingSubjectsAuthorityBehaviorCapacityIdealsDignityCommandRejectsConceptionProvidingAffirmationLaboratoryHuman Dignity Author:Stanley Milgram
“The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.” KnowsIdeasUsedPowerfulClearBehaviorTrainRewardsEmployeeIncentivesToddlerStickerPottyRecalcitrant Author:Emily Oster
“Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.” MeanReligiousPowerfulAttitudeSourceBehaviorUrgesClothingsChaoticNudity Author:Patricia Garfield
“I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.” ThinkingRealCharacterDreamPowerfulMoralMoralityBehaviorCapitalismAssumingTensionPipePipe DreamsMoral Behavior Author:Michael Pollan
“Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.” WayHas BeensSelfPlayUseMightNightAsksGamesGivenProcessPowerfulBehaviorNegativeCould Have BeenNeuroticOld Love Author:Marianne Williamson
“The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.” HumansNaturalPowerfulPathBehaviorStrongerResistanceTendenciesHuman BehaviorPath Of Least Resistance Author:Brian Tracy
“Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.” SocialTermPowerfulBehaviorFunctionGuilt Author:David D. Burns
“Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.” HumansMovingPowerfulBehaviorFilmmakingHuman BehaviorVery Powerful Author:Ruben Ostlund
“Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.” HumansRealityValuesForcePowerfulRightsBehaviorUnderstoodTransformationHuman RightsDefinedManifestationSpontaneousNorm Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.” IfsWorldTryingSexPowerfulBuildingBehaviorHollywoodAskingCriminalsMost PowerfulKillersMachineryTwistedOrientationDykesCriminal Behavior Author:Roger Ebert
“Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.” TwoPowerfulSilenceBehaviorOutcomesSustainingDominatingCircumspection Author:Judith Orloff
“There is a compelling case showing us that we actually change people all the time. And when we fully realize this, we start to see how powerful we are to get others unstuck, see that their behavior matters, and start taking steps to create happiness and success in their lives.” PeopleMatterRealizingPowerfulStepsCasesBehaviorCompellingHappiness And Success Author:Michelle Gielan
“The Atonement of Jesus Christ is powerful enough to reach out and cleanse you if you are repentant and give up your sinful behavior, but I urge you not to embark on that path because repentance is not easy.” IfsGivingEnoughJesusEasyChristPowerfulPathGiving UpBehaviorJesus ChristUrgesRepentanceReach OutAtonement Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?” PeopleIfsKindReasonPowerfulStepsRolesLandTrumpBehaviorHighestElectionThreatSeekingWorriedReason WhyMost PowerfulBullyNarcissisticStep UpLawsuitVery TrueVengefulReprisal Author:Reid Hoffman
“When I won the Cesar, I was, first of all, an actor. I have to say, it's humanity first. That's the future. We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior.” BelieveHumanityI BelievePowerfulBehaviorSkinsMost PowerfulMentality Author:Omar Sy
“We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior. I had to stop seeing myself in such a limited way. I started doing that as a teenager, and here I am today, because of that. I believe that's the best way to change things for Black people.” PeopleBelieveTodayI BelieveBlackPowerfulBehaviorSkinsTeenagerMost PowerfulBlack PeopleMentality Author:Omar Sy
“Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.” HumansPowerfulInfluenceHeroBehaviorAcknowledgeHeroicHuman BehaviorVariablesSocial Psychology Author:Philip Zimbardo
“Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.” PeopleTryingHumansShowsPastTimePowerfulInfluencePerspectiveBehaviorPrejudiceMost PowerfulHuman BehaviorSocial PsychologyBiasedPast Present Author:Philip Zimbardo
“Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.” PeopleWayShouldTwoProcessPowerfulBehaviorSacredForgivingInstanceTwo Ways Author:Sidney Poitier
“Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.” WorldLongPlayForceSocialPowerfulAttitudeRolesGenerationsEconomicConditionsBehaviorRootsLegacyMake SenseOur WorldPersistLong LifeDemographicsOutliersDeep Roots Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.” IfsLittlesGovernmentMightLawPoliticalWishLinesPowerfulRightsCitizensBehaviorOrdinaryFunctionConstitutionBillsMajoritySupremeLimitationRanOfficialsDescriptionMost PowerfulFederal GovernmentCrossingsBill Of RightsOrdinary Citizens Author:Glenn Greenwald