Edwin A. Locke Quotes

A “conditioning” model, which is at root based on the assumption of mindless, subconscious determinism, is completely hopeless for understanding even something as basic as shopping—not to mention human action in general.

Edwin A. Locke

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• Conditioning
• Determinism
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• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Job
  • Know

• I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
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• A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Parents
  • Find
  • Very

• The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Movie
  • Success
  • Story

• May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

  Gail Devers
  • Up
  • Never
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• I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.

  

  Kanye West
  • Up
  • God
  • inspirational

• Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Respect
  • Changes
  • Difficult Things

• Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Genius
  • Rules
  • Follow

• Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Action
  • Limits

• Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Civilization
  • Duty
  • Conduct

• I don't think display advertising is the future of advertising.

  

  Alan Schaaf
  • Future
  • Advertising
  • Display

• Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

  

  Carole Lombard
  • Funny
  • Ego
  • Laughing

• Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Imagine
  • Names
  • Hopeless

• More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • People
  • Culture
  • Feelings

• I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.

  

  Hamilton Leithauser
  • Way
  • Words

• A “conditioning” model, which is at root based on the assumption of mindless, subconscious determinism, is completely hopeless for understanding even something as basic as shopping—not to mention human action in general.

  

  Edwin A. Locke
  • Hopeless
  • Conditioning
  • Determinism