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Reinforcement is being right. -- B. F. Skinner
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. -- B. F. Skinner
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. -- Albert Camus
I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore. -- Jane Pauley
If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. -- James Chanos
Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement. -- Tiger Woods
I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement. -- Alfonso Cuaron
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. -- John Milton
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa. -- B. F. Skinner
It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives. -- Zig Ziglar
With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again. -- Gloria Gaither
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. -- Lisa Alther
meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind. -- Thrangu Rinpoche
Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an organization can maximize performance. -- Aubrey Daniels
That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement. -- Cameron Crowe
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. -- B. F. Skinner
Instead of yelling and spanking, which dont work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. -- Patricia Richardson
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. -- Lilian Katz
Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale. -- F.B. Meyer
Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force. -- Gerd von Rundstedt
People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less -- Bill Walsh
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful. -- B. F. Skinner
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Tyler Perry
I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well. -- Hale Irwin
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. -- Patricia Richardson
I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement. -- Carrie Coon
My mum will always come and see my shows if she can, and if she can't, she'll text or email just before wishing me a great show and telling me how much she loves me. She still gives tonnes of positive reinforcement and love. It's really remarkable what that does for a child, and it's really remarkable what that does for me as an adult. -- Rain Phoenix
I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on the best-seller list, 'Why not me?' Someone has to write for the 'New Yorker,' 'Why not me?' And I didn't really get much positive reinforcement as a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.' -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed. -- Marshall Sylver
Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion. -- Fatima bint Muhammad
I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings. -- David Copperfield
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior. -- Jeannette Walls
Young children especially need the visual reinforcement of seeing you turn to Scripture for wisdom. -- Kara Durbin
Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change. -- Virginia H. Pearce
The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word. -- Anna Quindlen
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. -- Robert Hass
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. -- Carol Bly
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command. -- Steven Pressfield
I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement. -- Christopher Hitchens
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. -- George Eliot

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