B. F. Skinner Quotes

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.

I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or next week... I try to be an inspiration to the young to respect their older people; we can't stay the same, but we do the best we can with what's left. You can't whine about stuff, you have to learn to eat humble pie along the way and keep going, because the alternative is going to happen.

You've got to make adjustments as you get older.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

As you get older, you change certain things.

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

When your through changing, your through!

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.