Factors Quotes

• Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Life is
  • Solution
  • Factors

• When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Method
  • Complex
  • Scientific

• My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

  

  Rebecca Ferguson
  • Advice
  • Knows
  • Factors

• Ben Carson's not really a factor anymore. I hate to say that of anybody, but he isn't a factor anymore.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Hate
  • I Hate
  • Ben Carson

• I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Great
  • Internet
  • Changes

• I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.

  

  Gary Lightbody Snow Patrol
  • Darkness
  • Factors
  • Surprising

• Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Positive
  • Economic
  • Hong Kong

• Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.

  

  Gerd von Rundstedt
  • Adverse
  • Blocked
  • Arrivals

• Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Behavior
  • Influences
  • Factors

• Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • May
  • Action

• Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Quality
  • motivation
  • Performance

• The reality is that the "gayborhoods" are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Reality
  • Internet
  • Acceptance

• Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Crime

• And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Achievements
  • Capabilities

• Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Intellectual
  • Valuable
  • Productions

• Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Reach
  • Prediction

• The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Factors
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Communicators

• I'd say we have, ... because of the team and the confidence factors and things.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Team
  • Confidence
  • Factors

• [Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Information
  • Performance
  • Efficacy

• Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Ability
  • Wells

• No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

  

  William Lyon Mackenzie
  • Effort
  • Impossible
  • Alcoholics

• My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Speech
  • Factors
  • Terrific

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