The One Fact That I Would Cry

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.

Somehow People Get The Idea I Think We Should Be Given Gumdrops Whenever We Do Anything Of Value.

We Do Not Choose Survival As A Value, It Chooses Us.

But Restraint Is The Only One Sort Of Control, And Absence Of Restraint Isn't Freedom. It's Not Control That's Lacking When One Feels 'free', But The Objectionable Control Of Force.

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.