Skinner Psychology Quotes

#1. To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

Steve Martin

#2. Though it seems to be a running theme that all well-polished men with model faces and insanely hot bodies are assholes.

Michelle A. Valentine

#3. 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

#4. Tendentious point of view;

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

B.F. Skinner

#6. Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

Joe Montana

#7. When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago.

Kristen Stewart

#8. I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

Maralee McKee

#9. If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Seneca.

#10. 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

#11. Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.

Euginia Herlihy

#12. After wasting so much pulp and ink myself, who was I to complain about waste? We live in an advanced capitalist society, after all.

Haruki Murakami

#13. A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

Chali 2na

#14. I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

Ronee Blakley

#15. Oh, WHY can't boys be just sensible!" Anne

L.M. Montgomery

#16. The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.

Beth Orton