"If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment." ― B. F. Skinner Topic(s): Change More From B. F. Skinner "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." "I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is." "The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount." More In Change "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America."― Eldridge Cleaver "Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."― Tom Stoppard "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."― William Arthur Ward