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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

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli — B.F. Skinner

Behavior is determined by its consequences. — B.F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. — 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

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources. — 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

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes. — 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

People say, "Now you've given up booze at least you can remember what you did last night." I say, "Yeah, nothing." - Frank Skinner — Jimmy Carr

I also learned that the world is a bad place not because there's more bad people than good. It's because the good are complacent. — Dan Skinner

A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by it's own farts — Frank Skinner

Nature doesn't tell you what's wrong. It only let's you know what's right. — Dan Skinner

This is where you're going to tell me you're gay, isn't it? — Dan 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

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world. — Todd 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

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior. — B.F. Skinner

I never really expected to be controversial. — B.F. Skinner

How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it. — Frank 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

There's quite a difference between fucking what you can get, and fucking something that blows the brains out of your skull like a 44 Magnum. — Dan 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

Forgive me for my sappiness, but it's the only means I have to convey the molecular destruction I experienced caught in the vision of his smile. — Dan Skinner

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

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories? — B.F. 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 way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. — B.F. Skinner

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. — 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

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. — 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

He knew for the first time ever that someone existed who actually cared for him. — Dan Skinner

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

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless. — B.F. Skinner

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

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy. — 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 juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion. — B.F. Skinner

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. — B.F. 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

Sometimes the only way you can get through the deepest pain is to distance yourself. — Dan 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

We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves. — Todd Skinner

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. — B.F. Skinner

I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax — Dennis Skinner

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them. — B.F. Skinner

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower. — Todd Skinner

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. — B.F. 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

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience. — 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

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression. — B.F. Skinner

Great scientific contributions have been techniques. — B.F. Skinner

He lids squeezed closed. They were the dams to the silver trails of his soul leaking out. — Dan Skinner