I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and ...
B. F. SKINNER I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or no...
B. F. SKINNER No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
B. F. SKINNER Reinforcement is being right.
B. F. SKINNER The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful a...
B. F. SKINNER I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it;...
B. F. SKINNER If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. SKINNER The environment shapes people's actions.
B. F. SKINNER Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
B. F. SKINNER I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
B. F. SKINNER Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinfor...
B. F. SKINNER If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls...
B. F. SKINNER Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
B. F. SKINNER The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. SKINNER When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. SKINNER Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
B. F. SKINNER Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
B. F. SKINNER Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B. F. SKINNER Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change th...
B. F. SKINNER The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. SKINNER We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. SKINNER Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. SKINNER The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
B. F. SKINNER I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't ...
B. F. SKINNER A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The...
B. F. SKINNER The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
B. F. SKINNER Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, polluti...
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B. F. SKINNER Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B. F. SKINNER Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B F SKINNER Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalist...
B. F. SKINNER A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how...
B. F. SKINNER I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I&...
B. F. SKINNER The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in ...
B. F. SKINNER Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activi...
B. F. SKINNER Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't...
B. F. SKINNER The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.
B. F. SKINNER The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. SKINNER Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the produ...
B. F. SKINNER Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. SKINNER I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about re...
B. F. SKINNER The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a th...
B. F. SKINNER The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. SKINNER If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. SKINNER I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made...
B. F. SKINNER I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In o...
B. F. SKINNER I'm very pessimistic.
B. F. SKINNER I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
B. F. SKINNER I never really expected to be controversial.
B. F. SKINNER I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
B. F. SKINNER I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inher...
B. F. SKINNER You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid st...
B. F. SKINNER The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the n...
B. F. SKINNER What is sought can never produce the seeking.
B. F. SKINNER We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
B. F. SKINNER Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he pro...
B. F. HARRIS When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the...
F. B. MEYER God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be qui...
F. B. MEYER Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century Faith is indeed the energy of our whole uni...
B. F. WESTCOTT The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the conceptions of authoritative examination, of un...
B. F. WESTCOTT Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr...
B. F. HARRIS Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he pr...
B. F. HARRIS What hath God wrought?
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE The thing about it for us is we'll have to do what we do, and hopefully that's enough to win the bas...
AL SKINNER It's not the guards that make the plays. It's really the forwards that are able to handle the ball a...
AL SKINNER To finish with just five losses is very pleasing.
AL SKINNER It's similar, because the level of competition is there. It's going to be very intense, but the Big ...
AL SKINNER I was hoping to get the guys a couple of days in class. It's disappointing because we've got to trav...
AL SKINNER Because I've been allowed to stay long enough, I think that's part of the reason that this has occur...
AL SKINNER They've been very fortunate to win a lot of basketball games here. I'm just extremely happy for them...
AL SKINNER We've obviously got to play some games without him. So we're proceeding as if we're playing without ...
AL SKINNER He's doing everything he needs to do and he's just fulfilling his end. It's just a wait-and-see atti...
AL SKINNER When Sean came in it changed the game. It got everybody excited.
AL SKINNER We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few wor...
B.F. SKINNER A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best...
B.F. SKINNER A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Henc...
B.F. SKINNER I sat the bench (with the Kings) for I don't know how many games. It is just a coach's preference wh...
BRIAN SKINNER I was trying to figure out what the heck I was doing. I wanted to get in there and run and obviously...
BRIAN SKINNER I watch the All-Star game every year. It's a fun game and I want to see what the guys are doing. I l...
BRIAN SKINNER I'm going to disappear, just get away from it. They made the All-Star break for a reason to get a br...
BRIAN SKINNER Oh yes, yes, yes, it's great to just get away from the regular schedule you have all season.
BRIAN SKINNER You can't take anybody lightly because you can get blown out easily in this league. Everybody's in t...
BRIAN SKINNER In the U.S., the markets that are most risky are those where there is a higher proportion of buyers ...
THOMAS SKINNER Years ago there were historians who 'just sit and know;' that was the expression.
WILLA SKINNER While we are continuing to invest in increased production to provide long term supply assurance to o...
PAUL SKINNER They've been very fortunate to win a lot of basketball games here. I'm just extremely happy for them...
AL SKINNER We don't have the local funds to take care of local projects.
ALLAN SKINNER The day is already here for that. In the next five year update, we'll probably have to take that int...
ALLAN SKINNER No one should assume the imminent release of these photos at this point,
JOHN SKINNER We strip them down to bare bones and add the armor material and the protected glass and then put the...
FRANK SKINNER There are still a few gas bubbles, but they're like you'd get from a can of soda as opposed to mud b...
MATT SKINNER Yeah, but that's what happens here, ... If a footballer has marital difficulties, he gets a bit of s...
FRANK SKINNER looked at all aspects of detention operations under a microscope.
JOHN SKINNER Many SWANA members have dealt with the solid waste generated in natural disasters such as hurricanes...
JOHN SKINNER He's been very supportive of (Valentine's) candidacy. He thinks she's the best candidate to accompli...
DELACEY SKINNER We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understa...
B.F. SKINNER If you go into some of these small towns down the coast of Mississippi, there is no accounting syste...
RICHARD SKINNER They've been sitting exposed to the elements for months. Some of the trailers that we inspected are ...
RICHARD SKINNER You hear Yale Law degree, and you think he'd be doing corporate law somewhere. But here he is, separ...
WAYNE SKINNER No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restr...
B.F. SKINNER It was awesome. We had an awesome truck when we came here and tested a couple weeks back. It was a g...
MIKE SKINNER The easiest way is to score points, but when you don't do that, there are other things you can do. H...
AL SKINNER We're small. If you notice, (our sign) says 'Acre'. That's it. Our priority are the farmer's markets...
BOB SKINNER We will do exactly what we have done for all our away games since Christmas and keep with our establ...
BOB SKINNER You're a single bloke now, though, aren't you? It's legit,
FRANK SKINNER When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what...
FRANK SKINNER [It is an appropriate symbol of the dedication Richardson has shown to young artists over the past 2...
FRANK SKINNER Yeah, I had some wrecks before the HANS that really hurt me. This past year, I had a right-front tir...
MIKE SKINNER Apparently someone blew up down there and we hit his oil. I went up and hit the wall, bent the ball ...
MIKE SKINNER Yeah, but you're a big star. It goes with the territory,
FRANK SKINNER Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
AL SKINNER I was hoping to get the guys a couple of days of class.
AL SKINNER It was a well-played game. I think it was pretty entertaining. Unfortunately, they were the last one...
AL SKINNER It was really incidental. It wasn't even a distraction for either team. Maybe the fans and everyone ...
AL SKINNER Unfortunately, they were the last one standing.
AL SKINNER He raised his game to another level as far as his shooting was concerned. We didn't defend him as we...
AL SKINNER It had nothing to do with the game. It was a well-played game. It wasn't even a distraction for eith...
AL SKINNER You might as well get used to it, there are some new people in town.
AL SKINNER Looking at it right from the top, it looks like we should have switched spots. But I'm not going to ...
AL SKINNER That shot at the end of the half really helped lift us and took us into the locker room on a positiv...
AL SKINNER The one at the end of the half really took us in the locker room on a real positive note. I don't kn...
AL SKINNER We came down here with a purpose. Right now, we have placed ourselves in a position to win this thin...
AL SKINNER It's not like they welcome you with open arms in that environment, either. This is not really new fo...
AL SKINNER I don't think we're crashing their party. We're part of this. You might as well get used to this. Th...
AL SKINNER It's not for public knowledge.
AL SKINNER There are a lot of ways to win basketball games, and obviously the easiest way is to score points. B...
AL SKINNER That really helped lift us. I don't know a better way to lift a team. It gave our guys a lot of conf...
AL SKINNER We came down here with a purpose. But our goal is not over yet.
AL SKINNER You might as well get used to this. There's some new people in town and y'all got to hopefully welco...
AL SKINNER Both teams played hard, and I think it was pretty entertaining. Unfortunately, they were the last on...
AL SKINNER We didn't crash the party. We're part of this league now. People are going to have to get used to th...
AL SKINNER Just because you pay 5 percent less than somebody else doesn't mean it is a good price.
THOMAS SKINNER We are definitely on track. We are looking real strong. We just PRd about 75 percent of the team tod...
MICHAEL SKINNER When we heard it was going to be low temperatures today I was looking forward to it. Especially afte...
MICHAEL SKINNER If an environmental toxin can cause a transgenerational effect and affect your grandchild, this is a...
MICHAEL SKINNER The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a th...
B.F. SKINNER Hopefully, it's not over yet. Right now, it's just another game in a tournament.
AL SKINNER At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a ...
B.F. SKINNER A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device whic...
B.F. SKINNER In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t b...
B.F. SKINNER He's an inspiration to a lot of us.
BILL SKINNER It was really close. People kept asking, did the major beat the colonel?
BILL SKINNER This league has evolved and hopefully we bring some credibility to it. And people will appreciate th...
AL SKINNER It's coming together, especially in terms of our relay teams.
MATT SKINNER I've got a great appreciation for the focus they've brought. We didn't start off as well as we would...
AL SKINNER The level of competition is fairly equal. I think there is a lot of credibility that goes with both ...
AL SKINNER Urban sprawl is finally hitting Jefferson County.
ALLAN SKINNER You're a bit of a hero,
FRANK SKINNER A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by its own farts.
FRANK SKINNER If we play Friday, then everything works out OK. If we have to play Thursday, we'll be put at a huge...
AL SKINNER It takes more than volunteers. It takes donations.
T.V. SKINNER I was now privy to how a calm, average , peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a sp...
DAN SKINNER There are a number of studies published that report on varying degrees of effectiveness. But there a...
TOM SKINNER Virginia is moving in the right direction, and we wanted to make sure it continued to move in the ri...
DELACEY SKINNER To tell a woman who has suffered through the trauma of rape or an incident of incest and who has bee...
DELACEY SKINNER What we've been telling people continues to hold true: that some of the attacks they have made on us...
DELACEY SKINNER We respect the prerogative of debate organizers to conduct the debate sponsors as they see fit. We w...
DELACEY SKINNER He thought going to this march would help them (the families) heal. As he has said, his heart got a ...
DELACEY SKINNER I don't think anyone thinks these one-time expenditures are going to solve the transportation challe...
DELACEY SKINNER The point is for the governor-elect to, first of all, have an opportunity to talk directly with comm...
DELACEY SKINNER Newspapers across the state have referred to those ads as vile, loathsome, a smear.
DELACEY SKINNER It shows that the death penalty smear attack fell on its face.
DELACEY SKINNER Our biggest problem is going to be the environment. But I know if my lights were out, I'd want someo...
DAVE SKINNER My two through five golfers are very capable of shooting good scores and they've proven it this year...
DAVE SKINNER We've been consistent, now we just need to put it together. I think we can be competitive and shoot ...
DAVE SKINNER The game of life is like the game of boomerangs, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with a...
FLORENCE SKINNER There are only 30 cars. If it was all equalized, some places like P.E.I. or New Brunswick might not ...
GREG SKINNER We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long a...
GREG SKINNER When troops arrived a few weeks ago, they saw a lot of other chains and wondered why we weren't ther...
GREG SKINNER If I buy you a coffee and you get a winning cup, it's your car. I might be mad at you as your best f...
GREG SKINNER (Comdex) got so large it had to move into other convention halls. If (CES) does it right, I don't th...
HEATHER SKINNER It makes more sense for us to do a show like CES. In the past, we were more business-focused, so Com...
HEATHER SKINNER What I tell them at the top is point your skis to the first gate and have fun.
HEATHER SKINNER They had a really fun time. The other teams commented on how great our attitude was.
HEATHER SKINNER Why is this facility being closed down? Well FEMA originally had contracts for about the last six mo...
LEO SKINNER I think they really wanted to help us. But they're overwhelmed and understaffed.
LISA SKINNER We just want to let her know we exist. That we're waiting for her.
LISA SKINNER Solo home runs can't hurt you if you're pitching that way. His command was better in the strike zone...
JOEL SKINNER Byrd threw good today. He had a lot of strikes and his command was better than it had been in his la...
JOEL SKINNER It was a good day in the Wedge household.
JOEL SKINNER Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period...
FRANK SKINNER Overall, we expect supply/demand balances to remain tight in 2006 with prices continuing to track ab...
PAUL SKINNER Getting to the semifinals for a lot of guys that were there, it wasn't enough. We would like to go f...
ROB SKINNER Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even underst...
B.F. SKINNER He had great control of his pitches. He kept the hitters off balance.
ROWLAND SKINNER Wesleyan feels they are a major part of this community. We knew that we had the facilities to provid...
ROBERT SKINNER And what this paper in the Lancet really attests to is the need for us to have really good surveilla...
TOM SKINNER There was one in Texas and I think three or four in Mississippi that were confirmed by state and loc...
TOM SKINNER Some of my coaches run. Some lift weights. I play basketball. It's what I do.
AL SKINNER One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does n...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian t...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a ...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian ...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER