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Edward Thorndike Quotes

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

Edward Thorndike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 31, 1874 - August 9, 1949

Topics

Measure Aim Psychology Probability

It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.

Men Small Enough Long You Dying

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Person Nervous Tension Being Like

We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.

Positive Fun People Negative Excuses

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

Robert Richardson

Good Better Picture Good-Looking Far

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

Insurance Selling Want Wondering

Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Life Generosity Luck Choices Rest

I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

Women God Beautiful Think Seen Most

Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis's 'Time's Arrow' wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then.

Time King Me Long Strike Arrow

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Man Thoughts Pen Know Lying Write

Crowdsourced funding via cryptocurrencies is a viable practice. A lot of good ideas and innovative companies are coming out of it. This segment is creating thousands of jobs and companies all over the world.

William Mougayar

Good Practice Ideas World Creating

If I'm going to be completely honest, I did not get the appeal of IFC's 'Portlandia' initially.

Phoebe Robinson

Honest Going Get Did Appeal

I don't have a primary doctor, a primary hairstylist, a primary anything. I don't even have a primary address! Everything is just whenever I can find one.

Doctor Find I Can Everything Just

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