December 18, 2018 / Last updated : December 11, 2018 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Recent Issues. Chapter 4: The Listener. Quote 3 “Most of my book Verbal Behavior (1957) was about the speaker . . . But if listeners are responsible for the behavior of speakers, we need to look more closely at what they do.” (p. 36) Subscribe to RSS feed here