Albert Bandura Quotes
People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I love working the legislative process.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.
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It's a matter of people closing their eyes and opening their ears. If people are able to do that, then music is ageless.
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I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.
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People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.
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You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
