B. F. Skinner Quotes
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
Quotes to Explore
-
Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
-
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
-
I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
-
We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
-
So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
-
You have to be yourself.
-
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
-
There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
-
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
-
I don't like controversy.
-
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
-
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
-
Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
-
How does one measure the success of a museum?
-
It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
-
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
-
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
-
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
-
There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
-
My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for personal reasons. My birth name is actually Max Deitch.
-
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
-
I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear... I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.
-
My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
-
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
