John B. Watson

"Patience is developed through repeated exposure and conditioning."

"Love is but a series of conditioned emotional responses."

"The rational mind is itself a product of conditioning."

"We are all experiments in environmental determination."

"Introspection is the enemy of psychological science."

"Music preference is entirely a matter of conditioning and exposure."

"The soul is a concept we should abandon in favor of studying behavior."

"Motivation is nothing more than a drive state seeking stimulus."

"Every child born is a blank slate waiting to be written upon."

"Power derives from understanding and controlling stimuli."

"History is the record of human behavioral patterns across time."

"Kindness is a conditioned response reinforced by society."

"The pursuit of happiness is a learned behavioral goal."

"Technology must be harnessed to condition society properly."

"We cannot study the mind; we can only study behavior and its causes."

"Health is the optimal functioning of conditioned responses."

"Adventure seeking is a learned drive, not an innate one."

"The imagination is built from conditioned associations."

"Justice requires understanding the behavioral causes of crime."

"Strength of character is developed through repeated conditioning."

"Perseverance is a habit built through consistent reinforcement."

"Gratitude is a conditioned emotional state we can teach."

"Creativity emerges from novel recombinations of conditioned responses."

"Death anxiety is a learned response, not a natural instinct."

"Peace comes from the removal of aversive stimuli."

"War is the ultimate expression of learned behavioral patterns."

"Leadership ability is developed, never born."

"Work motivation is entirely dependent on the reward structure."

"The unconscious is merely behavior we have not yet observed."

"Our thoughts are themselves behaviors of the nervous system."