B. F. Skinner Quotes
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.B. F. Skinner
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I don't know what's on the other side.
Patrick Swayze -
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine -
Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
Sam Heughan -
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
Gary Hamel -
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
Maeve Binchy
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I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.
Larry David -
St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.
Katee Sackhoff -
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
Gavyn Davies -
I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
Vic Willis -
I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. Cole
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke -
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Earl Nightingale -
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
J. Tillman -
I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.
Salma Hayek -
A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.
Barbara Kingsolver -
'The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.' p144
Chuck Palahniuk
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.
Eric Davis -
Even the strongest man needs friends.
Mario Puzo -
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
John Abizaid -
I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
Chris Kyle -
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
B. F. Skinner