B. F. Skinner Quotes
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody – running back, quarterback, wide receiver – make the plays that Vince Young made today.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
