Negative Reinforcement Quotes

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Beat the dog and the panther will learn a lesson.

If you allow young folk to be abominably brought up and their characters corrupted little by little, from childhood; and if then you punish them as grown-ups for committing the crimes to which their training has consistently inclined them, what else is this, I ask, but first making thieves and then punishing them for it?

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

It's really the tone that people use to convey things sometimes that can either become a compliment or an insult. It's not always what you are saying, it's about how you say it.

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Dad couldn't train me. He was too high-strung, like, 'Throw your jab!' and I'd start crying.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Treat them so that they think that they are like dogs. And if they ever believe that they are not like dogs, then you have lost control over them

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.

Negativity gets attention and gets clicks.

Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

Limit your inputs to only those that support a certain kind of self-destructive behavior, and you can be cheered with enthusiasm as you drive yourself off a cliff.

If I see someone that is awesome or is an amazing player, I'm going to say he's an amazing player. If he looks like he sucks, I'm going to say, 'Hey that guy sucks!'

When I was a model at 15, I was eating one red pepper a day, and if I had a big day of castings, I would survive off a bag of Haribo, which gave me the 500 calories a day that would keep me alive. I was congratulated daily on my appearance - the more vertebrae upon my back you could count, the better my auditions went.

[Candidates are] more motivated by the fear of losing than the joy of winning.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.