B. F. Skinner Quotes

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

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• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Me

• It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Beginning
  • Attitude
  • Losing

• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Future

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Face
  • Status Quo

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Bond

• Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Right Person

• Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Game
  • Clarity

• We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Say
  • Mental
  • Cognitive

• I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Women
  • Reality

• Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Myself

• Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Real
  • Passion
  • Universe

• If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Mind
  • Crazy

• The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Victory

• As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • Music
  • School

• Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People