We had a guy, a gentlemen by the name of Mr. Greenleaf who lived behind the house we were shooting [Fences], and he was like a part of the movie. He would come downstairs, and he couldn't hear well to say, "Ya'll want some coffee?"
I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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.
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private power. Those who have different goals should (and do) become organized and activist.
The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.