Albert Bandura Quotes
When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort.
Quotes to Explore
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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What we did was make it easier for people to subscribe to and expand Obamacare.
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Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
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Even before September 11, there was a debate in the administration about whether or not military force should be used to oust Saddam Hussein. You're not going to find one person in the top echelons of the foreign policy and national security establishment in the U.S. government who's going to say that Saddam Hussein should not be out of power.
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I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
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When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort.
