Reinforcement Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Vasily Chuikov

  Receiving, Retreat, Hell

  "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.

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• 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

  Pride, Looks, Proud

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.150, ShandonPress

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• He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this even for a moment or he is lost. His only salvation is to dedicate himself to love, in the same fashion as Gandhi did to militant nonviolence, as Socrates to truth, as Jesus did to love and as More did to integrity. Only then will he have the strength to combat the forces of doubt, confusion and contradiction. He can depend upon no on or no thing for reinforcement and assurance but himself.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Fashion, Jesus

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• I believe in giving rewards and positive reinforcement for a job well done, but can we raise ourselves a little higher than the dogs and give rewards that have longer-term benefits? How can a poor food choice be a true reward anyway?

  Jill Johnson

  Motivational, Dog, Jobs

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• 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

  Writing, Years, Rejection

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• It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

  Duke of Wellington

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  Notes for September 18, 1836. "Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851". Book by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope, 1886.

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• I gathered all of the Jewish mukhtars, who have contact with Arabs in different villages and asked them to whisper in the ears of some Arabs that a great Jewish reinforcement has arrived in Galile and that it is going to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while there is still time... The tactic reached its goal completely. The building of the police station at Halsa fell into our hands without a shot. The wide areas were cleaned.

  Yigal Allon

  Hands, Goal, Police

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• Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Long, Want, Turns

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• I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.

  David Copperfield

  Thinking, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments.

  Charlie Munger

  Animal, Different, Purpose

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• My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Writing, Journey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Meditation, Mind, Awareness

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• 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

  Appreciation, Children, Effort

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• I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Directors, Doe, Needs

  Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2011.

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• 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.

  B. F. Skinner

  Mutation, Behavior, Natural

  B.F Skinner (1965). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

  Bill Gates

  Teaching, Skills, Bored

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• I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school, without having parents who really were actively involved in faith there was no reinforcement of it. So, as a result of that I guess I just kind of thought that God was somebody that you put in a box and you put Him on a shelf and you called on him when you had crises.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Growing Up, School, Parent

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.

  Gerald Edelman

  Thinking, Cells, Essence

  "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982.

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• 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

  Thinking, Selfishness, Needs

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• Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, School, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• Peacekeeping there is still just totally ineffective. The UN is now saying they are sending reinforcements in the area, but I have no particular reason to believe that they will be any stronger than the force there. In Southern Kordofan, it's mostly an Egyptian battalion, and that's really problematic because the population already doesn't trust the Egyptians; they think they're on payroll of the north. So we already have a force that is seen as compromised.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Believe, Thinking, Southern

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

  Pittacus Lore

  Jobs, Men, Guy

  Pittacus Lore (2013). “The Fall of Five: Lorien Legacies”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Roger Caras

  Stars, Nice, Believe

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

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