Albert Bandura Quotes
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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Square meals often make round people.
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People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.
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Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
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To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.
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I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.
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I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.
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If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
