All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.
Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [. . . ] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.
I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.
Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.
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.
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.
The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements. . . all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.
With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.
The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net. . . you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing.
