Albert Bandura Quotes

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior.

Albert Bandura

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• I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Kids

• I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Why
  • Play
  • Myself

• Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Power
  • Choose

• La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People

• I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • She
  • Kids
  • Age

• My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open - they tell you what they think - and he's very much that way himself.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Father

• 'Ashes To Ashes' is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It's so much more flattering.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • High
  • Success

• I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Good
  • Exercise

• And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.

  

  Lynn Redgrave
  • Family

• I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.

  

  Curtis Stone
  • People
  • Time
  • Professional

• A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Art
  • Perception

• And that's the key to George W. Bush: It's that he wants to be the smartest person in the room. But in order to be the smartest person in the room, you kinda have to fill that room with a lot of dim bulbs. And that's where we get the Alberto Gonzaleses, and the Harriet Mierses, and the 'you're-doing-a-heck-of-a-job-Brownie''s.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Job

• I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

  

  George McGovern
  • Deep
  • Promise

• Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • Country
  • Remember
  • War

• Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

  

  Farah Pahlavi
  • Different
  • Country
  • Political

• The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Way
  • Harmony
  • Behaviour

• Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.

  

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
  • Good
  • Danger
  • Argument

• Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

  

  Celia S. Friedman
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Needs

• Jealousy doesn't show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.

  

  Valérie Quennessen
  • Shows
  • Jealousy
  • Insecure

• Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Moments
  • Waiting
  • Sky

• It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Behaviour
  • Self-efficacy
  • Nonspecific