Skinner Verbal Behavior Quotes & Sayings

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations. — B.F. Skinner

There are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. — Jeanette Winterson

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction. — Cate Blanchett

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success. — Vinod Khosla

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior. — B.F. Skinner

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations. — Newton Lee

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps. — Emma McLaughlin

Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned — Johnnie Dent Jr.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends. — Taylor Swift

The news that Osama Bin Laden is dead will bring great relief to people across the world. Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the worst terrorist atrocities the world has seen - for 9/11 and for so many attacks, which have cost thousands of lives, many of them British. — David Cameron

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin. — B.F. Skinner