Albert Bandura Quotes
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
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Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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Remember, someone, somewhere in some corner of this somewhat big world, is out there crying if you're unhappy and is happy if you are! And you know who that someone is!
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In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
