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Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off

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John B. Watson

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

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Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.

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Men are built, not born. . . . Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood. . . . I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.

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There are. . . for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

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The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

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No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started. . . It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

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