B. F. Skinner Quotes
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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If people don't love what you're doing, that doesn't mean you're wrong.
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It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.
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Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.
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I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.
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I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.
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The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.
