Top 100 B.f Quotes

#1. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

F.B. Newman

B.f Quotes #564
#2. John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Lyndon B. Johnson

B.f Quotes #2421
#3. To say that ... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #11018
#4. I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.

Marian McPartland

B.f Quotes #20380
#5. You ever f**k Susan here?" she said, her face almost touching mine.
"I'm impressed," I said. "The question is intrusive, annoying, coarse, and voyeuristic. That's quite a lot to get into a simple question.

Robert B. Parker

B.f Quotes #41967
#6. Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code
a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people
or, rather, there aren't any right people.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #52763
#7. Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #54093
#8. 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

B.f Quotes #54812
#9. The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #59253
#10. No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #64105
#11. To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #75850
#12. Half the f-f-family's in the Order, it'll b-b-be a miracle if we all come through this. . . . and

J.K. Rowling

B.f Quotes #109377
#13. 43I have come b in my Father's name, and c you do not receive me. d If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 44How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and e do not seek the glory that comes from f the only God?

Anonymous

B.f Quotes #112490
#14. I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #116516
#15. That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #124408
#16. I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, f*** uselss b***!

Harry Redknapp

B.f Quotes #137516
#17. Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #139355
#18. Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #139894
#19. 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

B.f Quotes #141830
#20. There is one man," the artist said after a moment. He'd paled. "H. F. Powell."
"Where would I find him?"
West didn't seem to hear him for a moment. He shook his head as if clearing away cobwebs from his brain. "Find him?" His laugh was more of a grunt. "Six feet under, last I checked.

B. J. Daniels

B.f Quotes #143734
#21. God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #155406
#22. Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #162449
#23. At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #164563
#24. What is sought can never produce the seeking.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #167885
#25. If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #171292
#26. No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #177164
#27. Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair
or the height of a battle against boredom.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #180138
#28. Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #181575
#29. The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #198290
#30. The press is dying to paint me as now trying to undo the New Deal. I remind them I voted for F.D.R. 4 times. I'm trying to undo the "Great Society." It was L.B.J.'s war on poverty that led to our present mess.

Ronald Reagan

B.f Quotes #201921
#31. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #209725
#32. I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #220596
#33. Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

B.f Quotes #230591
#34. I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #231230
#35. If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #240897
#36. In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #241622
#37. God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #243474
#38. A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #260522
#39. Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #269886
#40. Behavior is determined by its consequences.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #278897
#41. How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #280132
#42. I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

Ron Shock

B.f Quotes #299306
#43. Let us ask the Spirit of Truth to set a watch upon the door of our lips, allowing nothing to pass out on which he cannot set his seal. Whatever we do, in word as well as deed, let us do all in the name and for the glory of Jesus.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #315058
#44. 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

B.f Quotes #318855
#45. 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

B.f Quotes #323804
#46. As attention to the warning of the physical senses will preserve the health of our body, so attention to the warnings of our inner senses will forewarn and forearm against the influences that are hostile to spiritual life.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #344427
#47. The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #354564
#48. The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #360780
#49. He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.

Henry S.F. Cooper Jr.

B.f Quotes #368369
#50. I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #396666
#51. My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.

Katharine Weymouth

B.f Quotes #402331
#52. Nowadays, everybody fancies himself an expert in government and wants to have a say.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #408639
#53. At the best the body is only the organ and instrument of the soul, and that it must be kept under and made subservient to those lofty purposes which the soul conceives in its secret place and executes in life's arena.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #410111
#54. But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #410211
#55. God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #415417
#56. The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #437230
#57. The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

B.F. Skinner

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#58. Carrot-and-stick reinforcement' the behaviorists are telling us is needed for this bird to carry out these operations, thirteen different types of construction jobs? B. F. Skinner did a very good thing: in World War

William Peter Blatty

B.f Quotes #443459
#59. The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #443731
#60. There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price.

F.B. Meyer

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#61. The environment shapes people's actions.

B.F. Skinner

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#62. Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #482018
#63. Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

George Mikes

B.f Quotes #491143
#64. Us f'gotten slaves was bein' drained by hunger'n'pain an' the mozzies from the slopin' pond now an' we was envyin' that Hawi boy diresome, till at a nod from Lyons they ripped down Elfy's pants an' held him an' busted that boy's ring, oilin' his hole up with lardbird fat b'tween turns.

David Mitchell

B.f Quotes #495568
#65. I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by ... worried ... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #511222
#66. Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #514420
#67. And i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met.

David Levithan

B.f Quotes #518141
#68. Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #523345
#69. The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #524445
#70. The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.

Meldrim Thomson Jr.

B.f Quotes #529853
#71. Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #546663
#72. What? I'll do anything to help Harry!" "We can call the F.B.I." "The what?" "The Feline Bureau of Investigation.

Kristina Holmes

B.f Quotes #559976
#73. I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #582394
#74. Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.

F.B. Meyer

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#75. When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

B.F. Skinner

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#76. 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

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#77. Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #591393
#78. In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society).

Norman F. Cantor

B.f Quotes #592880
#79. 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

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#80. If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #595048
#81. If in the place of God we write "Reality", "Nature", "Unknowable", or "Zero", it matters not one whit; the equation is just as obscure; for all we have done is to replace a by b, c, d, or e, not knowing what these letters mean. The symbol has changed, but what it symbolizes remains as inscrutable.

J. F. C. Fuller

B.f Quotes #599538
#82. Men are very foolish to take airs on themselves, because they are rich. After all, money cannot do much for its owners. It will not enable a man to redeem either his brother or himself from untimely or sudden death. "A million of money for a moment of time!" cried Queen Elizabeth on her deathbed.

F.B. Meyer

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#83. The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

B.F. Skinner

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

B.F. Skinner

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#85. If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #650583
#86. I never really expected to be controversial.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #654773
#87. We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

B.F. Skinner

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#88. Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.

F.B. Meyer

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#89. There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.

F.B. Meyer

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

B.F. Skinner

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#91. I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

Jennifer McMahon

B.f Quotes #678542
#92. 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

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#93. To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope
here is fortitude indeed.

F.B. Meyer

B.f Quotes #692717
#94. The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

B.F. Skinner

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#95. Heather Awry (The Archers of Avalon, #2)
Okay, if my B-F-F goes rogue and starts trying to chop me into pieces, I fully expect your immortal hotness to protect me, got it?

Chelsea Fine

B.f Quotes #697576
#96. A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

B.F. Skinner

B.f Quotes #701543
#97. Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

Robert Dallek

B.f Quotes #709125
#98. The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

F.B. Meyer

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#99. The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

B.F. Skinner

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#100. Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

B.F. Skinner

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