Albert Bandura Quotes
When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience.
Quotes to Explore
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!
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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
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Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience.
