Psychologist Quotes

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
Reinforcement is being right.
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.
I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
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