B. F. Skinner Quotes

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Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:54:16

I would get up at 6 in the morning, study until breakfast, then go to lectures, labs and libraries, and not spend more than 15 minutes unplanned all day. I would work until 9 o’clock at night and then go to sleep. I wouldn’t play games, I wouldn’t watch movies. I seldom went to concerts, hardly ever dated, and studied nothing but psychology and physiology.

Topics: Sleep Morning Work Movies Psychology Physiology

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Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:53:21

Not everyone is willing to defend a position of not knowing. There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Topics: Virtue

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Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:52:52

If freedom is a requirement of human happiness, then all that is necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Topics: Human Happiness Freedom Necessary Illusion

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@B. F. Skinner

Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:52:32

A large number of smart men and well-meaning women are currently trying to build a better world. But problems arise faster than they can be solved.

Topics: World Arise Trying Women Smart

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@B. F. Skinner

Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:52:01

The most ideal behavior is to completely eliminate the pressure to make people do what we want and to achieve the results we want by changing their environment.

Topics: People Achieve Behavior Environment Ideal Results Changing

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Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:51:24

The most ideal behaviorism is to completely eliminate the pressure to make people do what we want and to achieve the results we want by changing their environment.

Topics: People Achieve Pressure Environment Ideal Results

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@B. F. Skinner

Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:50:57

We should teach a love of reading, not great books. Knowing the content of a few works of literature is an insignificant achievement. The tendency to keep reading is a great success.

Topics: Love Success Knowing Great Literature Content Reading Achievement Tendency

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@B. F. Skinner

Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:50:19

If you are old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.

Topics: Try Old Environment

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@B. F. Skinner

Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:49:55

Education is what remains after everything learned is forgotten.

Topics: Education

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Shared on AZProverbs.com on 2022-06-22 16:49:37

Failure is not always a mistake, it may be the best thing you can do when appropriate. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Topics: Best Real Mistake Failure Trying Appropriate

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B. F. Skinner

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. More on Wikipedia