Antecedents Quotes

• The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.

  

  Aubrey Daniels
  • Consequences
  • Keep Going
  • Antecedents

• We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Failures
  • Antecedents
  • Childhood traumas

• An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Absence
  • Relatives
  • Antecedents