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.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
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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.
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I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.
Gail Devers
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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.
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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.
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
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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.
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
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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.
