Behaviourist Quotes

#1. He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

John Boyne

#2. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty, Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend, you would sacrifice the world. In

Rick Riordan

#3. Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.

Emily Dickinson

#4. After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.

David Papineau

#5. There's nothing as scary as the future.

John Irving

#6. I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

Charlie Benante

#7. Although there are many trial marriages ... there is no such thing as a trial child.

Gail Sheehy

#8. But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

Buddy Rich

#9. Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

John Piper

#10. It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly.

Richard K. Morgan

#11. Give me solitude - give me Nature - give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities!

Walt Whitman

#12. It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.

Daya Kudari

#13. Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

Margaret Mitchell

#14. Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

Wayne Dyer

#15. The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Elbert Hubbard