B. F. Skinner Quotes

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

What once happened will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall combine in the same way.

Every decision you make has a consequence.

If something happens for one season, for me, it is a coincidence. Twice, we can start talking about it.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

Character is fate.

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.

My actions speak louder than my words.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.