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B. F. Skinner
American
Psychologist
About the author
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
#May
#Failure
#Trying
#Circumstances
#Mistake
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
#Old
#Change
#Environment
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
#Society
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
#Education
The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
#Act
#Consequences
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
#Men
#Machines
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
#Positive
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
#Love
#Books
#Reading
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner,
American
Psychologist
#Life
#Decisions
#Design