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Temáticas en inglés |
Quotations
on Behavior
(conducta, comportamiento) |
| Alfred Adler |
"The test of one's behavior pattern;
relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship
to sex." |
| W. H. Auden |
"Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture.
Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few
drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months
I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public." |
| Otto Von Bismarck |
"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and
a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."
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| Burrhus Frederic Skinner |
"Physics does not change the nature of the world
it studies, and no science of behavior can change the
essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield
technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject
matters." |
| Francis Beaumont |
"Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything
else, and we strive to swim on top." |
| George W. Crane |
"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be
the way you act." |
| Leonard Cohen |
"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or
a woman in the midst of this world, where each person
is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper
salutation between people as they pass each other in this
flood?" |
| Albert Einstein |
"Though our conduct seems so very different from
that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are
much alike in them and in us." |
| Cesare Pavese |
"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference." |
| Noam Chomsky |
"Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed
that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken
productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from
the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and
tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests
of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral
scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone
else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence
or beat them into oblivion." |
| Francois De La Rochefoucauld |
"We like to see others, but don't like others
to see through us." |
| Orson Welles |
"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we
ought to look as if we could." |
| Proverb |
"The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition." |
| Doug Horton |
"We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior
is our only hope for a pardon." |
| Wilson Mizner |
"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll
meet them on your way down." |
| Emma Thompson |
"I place a high moral value on the way people behave.
I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with
anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word
-- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit." |
| Hector Hugh Munro |
"It's no use growing older if you only learn new
ways of misbehaving yourself." |
| Source Unknown |
"What we are doing at the moment is more that
just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir." |
| E. G. Stakman |
"When man learns to understand and control his
own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and
control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals,
he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized." |
| Richard D. Rosen |
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's
dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned
us to do so." |
