B. J. Fogg famous quotes

06-17-2025

Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Donâ€™t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.
-- B. J. Fogg

#Motivation #Goal #Focus
Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.
-- B. J. Fogg

#Technology #Simple #Simplicity
Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.
-- B. J. Fogg

#Creativity #People #Design
Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.
-- B. J. Fogg

#Design #Entrepreneur #Willpower
Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.
-- B. J. Fogg

#Powerful #Technology #People
Design your site so it looks professional
-- B. J. Fogg

#Design #Looks #Site
Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing
-- B. J. Fogg

#Plant #Spots #Grows
People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.
-- B. J. Fogg

#Teaching #People #Effort

Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.
This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.
We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.
You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

B. J. Fogg famous quotes

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