B. F. Skinner Quotes
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.B. F. Skinner
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
Olga Kurylenko -
No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg -
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
Ada Lovelace -
On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
Karrie Webb -
I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
Kate Walsh -
I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
Harold Feinstein
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
F. Murray Abraham -
Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three times as hard to control.
Ed Walsh -
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips -
Cute in Ireland meant cunning and devious … And I'm not sure that I'm not.
Malachy McCourt -
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
Ben Jonson
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Who's gonna love you when it all falls down?Who's gonna love you when your bankroll runs out?Who's gonna care when the novelty's over?When the star of the show isn't you anymore.Nobody cares when the tears of a clown fall down(I guess your mama never told you what goes around comes back around).
Mariah Carey -
Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?
Jim Cooper -
The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!
Andrea Jung -
I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I'm quite into wildlife and love photography as well, so that's something I'd like to do.
Asa Butterfield -
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
Daniel Handler -
Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.
James Spithill
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The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.
Isadora Duncan -
I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.
Harland Williams -
I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde -
From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- authentic emotion- not contrived- which has made my music endearing.
Oleta Adams -
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford -
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.
B. F. Skinner