Albert Bandura Quotes
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.
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It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.
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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.