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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
— B.F. Skinner
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
— B.F. Skinner
Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
Behavior is determined by its consequences.
— B.F. Skinner
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
I came from a family of physical abuse. He came from one that had a psychological terrorist.
— Dan Skinner
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
— B.F. Skinner
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
— B.F. Skinner
To say that ... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
— B.F. Skinner
Which choice do you think is easier? One that comes with a threat? Or one that comes from love?
— Dan Skinner
The consequences of behavior determine the probability that the behavior will occur again
— B.F. Skinner
Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences
— B.F. Skinner
I always, always got to be the last man standing.
— Scott Snyder
We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.
— Frank Skinner
Reinforcement is being right.
— B.F. Skinner
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.
— Andrew Weil
That amenity which the French have developed into a great art ... conversation.
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
— B.F. Skinner
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
— B.F. Skinner
The environment shapes people's actions.
— B.F. Skinner
It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.
— B.F. Skinner
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
— B.F. Skinner
I never really expected to be controversial.
— B.F. Skinner
Not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
— B.F. Skinner
- If I tell you, will you let met go?- You bet, partner. [ ... ]
- You promised!
- Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost. — Scott Snyder
The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck.
— David Duchovny
We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
— B.F. Skinner
Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove
— Dan Skinner
small communities
— B.F. Skinner
The best books are the ones with the coolest covers
— Matthew Skinner
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
— B.F. Skinner
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
— B.F. Skinner
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
— B.F. Skinner
I did 'The Frank Skinner Show,' and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen.
— Robert Webb
I was in some other guy's version of heaven.
— Dan Skinner
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
— B.F. Skinner
Anthony Skinner has a fire in his heart to worship God, and to encourage and equip others to do the same.
— Matt Redman
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
— B.F. Skinner
Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is a new model of banking based on cloud computing structures of digital banking.
— Chris Skinner
The rat is always right.
— B.F. Skinner
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
— B.F. Skinner
The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.
— B.F. Skinner
The Kismet soon approaches. A new dawn is on the rise. The winds of change are blowing.
— Jordan Skinner
The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.
— Todd Skinner
His focus had been so narrow that the world became a mirrored reflection of his attitude - as
— Dan Skinner
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
— B.F. Skinner
Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.
— Quinton Skinner
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
— B.F. Skinner
So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?
— Frank Skinner
She's lovely and she's with Skinner, and they're probably in love and there's no justice in this world
— Irvine Welsh
The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.
— B.F. Skinner
It there's one thing we have to get used to...it's that we can't get used to things."(Rosemary)
— Dan Skinner
I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax
— Dennis Skinner
You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.
— Todd Skinner
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
— B.F. Skinner
I'm world-famous in West Bromwich.
— Frank Skinner
I honestly thought my marriage would work because me and the wife did share a sense of humour. We had to really, because she didn't have one.
— Frank Skinner
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
— B.F. Skinner
Cain glared at the spot his bullet could take to blow both their heads off. He opened and closed his hand, tempted. So very tempted.
— Tricia Skinner
Your first kiss. I wanted it to be mine.
— Dan Skinner
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
— B.F. Skinner
I think the whole world should be naked, so no one could try to pretend to be something other than they are." (Ryan)
— Dan Skinner
Fear is temporary. Regret is permanent. Adventure is taking a chance because it's better than the question mark if you don't.
— Dan Skinner
Men build society and society builds men.
— B.F. Skinner
The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.
— Joseph Skinner
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
— B.F. Skinner
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
— B.F. Skinner
Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
— B.F. Skinner
