B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 March 1904
CitySusquehana Depot, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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The message we're getting from you in the business community is right now, training is kind of secondary to finding the bodies.
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I just thought there were times when we moved the ball tremendously well. When they're focusing on (Smith) too much, then it makes it a little bit easier for everyone else.
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I just think that we were not as cool as we needed to be in the first half. But it's not terribly worrisome to me that we weren't able to finish those opportunities. The big thing is we created those opportunities.
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I know on paper, (tonight's game) may not look like a very good contest, but we're going to be more than ready to face them. I don't understand why they are (in last place). I think they're a talented team.
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I know it has to be hard for him. She called me, and when I got here, half the house was gone -- and I live in Wylie. It takes a good 10, 15 minutes to get here.
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I had no place to go and after that we sort of self-destructed, ... We probably shouldn't have been there to begin with. At the start, my Tundra was driving away from everybody and I was just riding.
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In Europe, comparable sales rose 3.6% in August, due to strong performance in France and Germany partly offset by continued weakness in the United Kingdom, ... We will build on this encouraging business momentum with successful customer-focused plans across Europe.
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Again, it's not the big things, it's the little things, but that's what makes for good basketball for us. We've got to utilize everyone. We've got into a stretch there where we got a little individualized and I'm not sure we're talented enough to do that.
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It's not a matter of if, but when we might see another pandemic.
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If Washington spells out the funding parameters, do you want to run the possibility of having a governor decide we're going to put it all in construction (training)? Is that how we want to have the system managed, or do we want to have the money coming down, and projects decided by local governing boards?
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If you go into some of these small towns down the coast of Mississippi, there is no accounting system.
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In the U.S., the markets that are most risky are those where there is a higher proportion of buyers using adjustable loans and interest-only loans.
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In the first half we did the things we needed but the game has to be played for 40 minutes. That separation they created in the second half was the difference in the ballgame. We made a couple of mistakes. I didn't think they did anything differently, they just continued to do what they wanted to do.
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He still had some room down there at the bottom and I knew he'd race me clean, ... I was trying to do anything I could to break his momentum.