B. F. Skinner Quotes
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I think anyone who wants to live past 100 can do it.
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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.
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Sometimes I wonder if my purpose on this earth is to be a role model. Look at my challenges as a gift, and my voice as tool.
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Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.
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Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.
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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
