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 hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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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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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
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Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement.
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The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
