Ellis Paul Torrance Quotes

One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.

Ellis Paul Torrance

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• Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Children
  • Education
  • Independent

• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Behavior
  • Customers

• I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Playing
  • Cute
  • Image

• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Kind
  • Environment
  • Behavior

• Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Books
  • Laws
  • Behavior

• It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Easy

• I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Image

• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Why
  • Existence
  • Behavior

• Human beings are largely motivated by their emotional repertoire, manifested through their need for attachment, physical security, a sense of belonging and a positive personal and collective identity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Positive
  • Emotional
  • Identity

• Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I've played so many gigs in front of around seven people. It's difficult to keep motivated, but it's all about growth. The love of music kept me going.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Music
  • Growth

• I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Age
  • Motivated

• I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.

  

  David M. Kelley
  • People
  • Fear
  • Motivated

• I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• I don't care where I fight on the card, but to get people motivated or excited, like, 'Cowboy's fighting!' that's my overall goal.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Motivated

• I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.

  

  Alyson Stoner
  • World
  • Motivated

• Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Born

• Because of dissociation, many victims are able to remember the abuse only when a certain object, smell, color, scene, or experience triggers a sudden, severe reaction. During a flashback one seems to see, feel, hear, smell, or taste something from the past as if it were actually happening in the present. In a visual flashback, you actually see the scene of your abuse, or you may see an object or image that reminds you or is symbolic of your abuse.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Remember
  • Image
  • Taste

• There are conspiracy theorists who think I was crafted in a boardroom. Because I'm so very relatable and so very topical and so very Tumblr.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Very
  • Conspiracy

• One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.

  

  Ellis Paul Torrance
  • Motivated
  • Behavior
  • Image