Reinforcing Quotes - page 2

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself. (J. C. Watts)
Black men are often seen in two-dimensional ways as historical racist ideas have been passed on, and the media doesn't help – reinforcing these ridiculous stereotypes. We often conflate black British men with African men, and it was important to get nuances on paper. View quote
Derek Owusu
Minimizing the role of sexual attraction in rape denies our responsibility for reinforcing men's addiction to female sexual beauty and then depriving men of what we've helped addict them to. View quote
Warren Farrell
The multiple reinforcing cues of a good song-rhythm, melody, contour-cause music to stick in our heads. That is the reason why many ancient myths, epics, and even the Old Testament were set to music in preparation for being passed down by oral tradition across generations. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Whenever we see a growing entity, whether it be a population, a corporation, a bank account, a rumor, an epidemic, or sales of a new product, we look for the reinforcing loops that are driving it and for the balancing loops that ultimately will constrain it. We know those balancing loops are there, even if they are not yet dominating the system's behavior, because no real physical system can grow forever. [...] An economy can be constrained by physical capital or monetary capital or labor or markets or management or resources or pollution. View quote
Donella Meadows