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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• 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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  • Remember

• 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
  • Doing

• 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 think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately suspect and seen as evidence as a sort of resurgent militancy.

  

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Would Be

• I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

  

  Ian Millar
  • She
  • Remember
  • Wife

• Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Joy
  • Tears
  • Plant

• Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Ability
  • Influence
  • Mood

• 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