Quotes About Behaviorism

#1. If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

Richard Rosen

#2. Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.

Paul Gibbons

#3. The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

Alfie Kohn

#4. You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics

Jeri Massi

#5. Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.

Henry M. Morris

#6. 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

#7. I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...

Anne Rice

#8. Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget my opinion of chocolate sodas or the story of the amusing episode on a Spanish streetcar.

B.F. Skinner

#10. According to population expert Dr. Paul Ehrlich, we should currently be experiencing a dystopian dreamscape where "survivors envy the dead," which seems true only when I look at Twitter. Yet

Chuck Klosterman

#11. A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#12. It was one of those days in August where the road looks like an illusion, melting and changing shapes.

Hunter Murphy

#13. I'm a horrible typist. That's why I became a writer.

Glenn Hefley

#14. Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.

Jay Watson

#15. Be patient, persistent and above all, believe.

Fennel Hudson

#16. I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away

Vincent Van Gogh

#17. We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

William James