B. F. Skinner Quotes

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

B. F. Skinner

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WorkGreatCultureMoneyPeopleNew

I was the class innuendist.

Michael Feldman

Class

It's amazing what people will give away for free just to get rid of it.

John Rampton

PeopleAmazingFreeWillGiveGet

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.

Steve Brown

CreativeRisksSpacePeopleTeam

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence.

Steve Coogan

GreatSilencePeopleYouKnowActor

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Alvar Aalto

TimePeopleKnowMoreWhoOur Time

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me.

Luke James

MusicTimeManChildMeDoing

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Janice Dickinson

MyselfAddictionHorribleFormer

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

Jon Stewart

SmartYouTaxGoWhyTake Advantage

I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again.

Jonathan Groff

HomeCityWoodsOverParkMall

You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that's in the past out.

Deontay Wilder

LifePastYouKnowStageOut

Apple Music is a living, breathing brand.

Bozoma Saint John

MusicBrandAppleLivingBreathing

People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.

Brian Sandoval

MoneyPeopleWantRightRepublican

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