Self Reinforcement Quotes

#1. Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Steven Pressfield

#2. 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

#3. Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.

Fatima Bint Muhammad

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. The way you engage someone's pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it.

Bryant McGill

#8. For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.

David Foster Wallace

#9. With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed.

Marshall Sylver

#10. When you give meaning to even the most meaningless of things around you, you will always stand to be taught something new, have what you already know reinforced, or be reminded of what you've forgotten.

A.J. Darkholme

#11. It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.

Zig Ziglar

#12. In games, we know who has won ... You get the reinforcement for having played well.

Michael A. Stackpole

#13. Prune these alleged friends ruthlessly from your life. You need all the positive reinforcement you can get. You need friends who think you're fabulous, an angel in human shape, and a breath of springtime.

Cynthia Heimel

#14. Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

Virginia H. Pearce

#15. Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.

Bryant McGill

#16. Random intermittent positive reinforcement can be found in gambling... and bad relationships.

Jose N. Harris

#17. I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

Tyler Perry

#18. The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real problems like having no voice in community, or no right to work; no access to capital to start a business. No reinforcement for talent.

Stella Atrium

#19. The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

Carol Bly

#20. I believe in giving rewards and positive reinforcement for a job well done, but can we raise ourselves a little higher than the dogs and give rewards that have longer-term benefits? How can a poor food choice be a true reward anyway?

Jill Johnson

#21. I've been dealt a fuller set of cards than the ones passed to Lily and Daisy. They're just as strong, if not stronger. I've always been here as extra reinforcement, and however old we become, however gray we are, that won't ever change.

Krista Ritchie

#22. I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

Hale Irwin

#23. Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

Patricia Richardson

#24. Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Tiger Woods

#25. Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an organization can maximize performance.

Aubrey Daniels

#26. India can progress only by the reinforcement of the women.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. In building the helping relationship, encouragement - via positive reinforcement - certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting. My

Edgar H Schein

#28. Some people are so special, so beautiful and have so much to offer this world. Sad thing is they just don't see it. They need positive reinforcement. Tell them, 'If you could see only half of what I see in you, then one day you'd realize how truly amazing you really are.

Marc Mero

#29. Love may be nothing more than a complex interaction of hormones, conditioned behavior, and positive reinforcement, but try writing a poem or song about that.

Rick Yancey

#30. Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

B.F. Skinner

#31. I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

Jane Roberts

#32. With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

Gloria Gaither

#33. I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

Jane Pauley

#34. Consult ... /what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

John Milton