A Quote by B. F. Skinner

What is sought can never produce the seeking.

B. F. Skinner

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Never Produce Seeking Sought

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B. F. Skinner
American - Psychologist
March 20, 1904 - August 18, 1990

It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous.

Poo Bear

There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

Franz Kafka

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

Arthur Lismer

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!

Robert Burns

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.

Alan Cohen

THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought, and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.

Wei Wu Wei

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Dean Acheson

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

Kevin Morby

One of the things you have to understand with The Room, I never approached a studio to produce, because I know no one in Hollywood will produce this. I came to Hollywood and I said "I will produce this movie the way I want it."

Tommy Wiseau

We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.

James Redfield

I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.

Studs Terkel

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.

Robert Burns

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

Baba Amte

I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.