Albert Bandura Quotes
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I was a campaign widow.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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My thing with fans is, it's always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures - you shouldn't take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?
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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
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What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
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I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
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'Mister!' he said with a sawdusty sneeze. 'I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I'm asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs' – He was very upset as he shouted and puffed – 'What's that THING you've made out of my Truffula tuft?'
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People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others.
