Albert Bandura Quotes

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures.

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• Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

  

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• Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

  

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• I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

  

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• I think that celebrities are just people, like everybody else, and they've got the foodie bug in them too.

  

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• As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.

  

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• The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

  

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• Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Standards
  • Failures
  • Successes