Albert Bandura Quotes
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.
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I'm an average person.
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The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces?
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All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.
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People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
