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“I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.”

People Thinking Trying Age Successful Behavior Successful People

Author:Anne Sweeney

“Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.”

Mean Persons Opportunity Successful Behavior Models Weight Management Lifestyle Permanent Life Changing Family And Friends Arena Really Mean Great Opportunity Permanent Change

Author:Francis Collins

“Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life”

School Simple Successful Behavior Complexes Rewards Business School

Author:John C. Maxwell

“The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.”

Differences Successful Essentials Behavior Elements Strategy Competitors

Author:Bruce Henderson

“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.”

Long Running Order Difficult Effort Successful Cutting Childhood Behavior Rivers Patterns Haul Dams Early Childhood Canals Sturdy New Directions Long Haul

Book:Life on the Edge

Source: Life on the Edge

“Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.”

Common Successful Behavior Common Sense Spite

Book:What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

Source: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

“Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.”

“I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!”

My Own Successful Behavior Proactive

Author:Daphne Oz

“What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and then consider the alternatives, those alternatives probably wouldn't be as successful at getting its genes around.”

Mean Animal Successful Behavior

Author:Hal Whitehead

“I used to believe that you could change the culture or behavior of a company. I still believe it's possible, but it is at least a five to ten year process, if you are successful at all. More recently, I have been attracted to the ideas of the behavioralist, Edgar Schein. Schein has argued that you cannot change the culture of a company, but you can use the culture of a company to create change. It's an interesting approach to overcoming resistance. And if you can change how a company does its work, you might eventually be able to change how its people think.”

People Thinking Believe Culture Interesting Successful Behavior Overcoming I Still Believe

Author:James A. Champy

“The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man’s approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.”

“Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.”

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays