B. F. Skinner Quotes
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.B. F. Skinner
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis -
So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles -
If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
Gary Weiss -
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid -
I want to pursue a career in film.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
Larry David
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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 -
I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
Laura Leighton -
The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
Zara Larsson -
I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
Raekwon -
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson -
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
Zig Ziglar -
It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
Laila Robins -
I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
J. R. Smith -
Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
Action Bronson -
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
Ueli Gegenschatz
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Natalie Portman -
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.
Tony Goldwyn -
I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.
Ozwald Boateng -
The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.
Francois Hollande -
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner