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«We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.»
Author: Albert Bandura
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
affect, affects, beliefs, choices, efficacy, inequities, inequity, inevitable, in particular, levels, limiting, low, Meet The, motivation, Obstacles, particular, perseverance, persistent, requires, resilience, significant, sorts, stringing, strung, The Face, The Face of
«We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
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Creativity
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creativity, particular, sequence, set free, set up, structures, temporary, The Sequence
«Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
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high-powered, higher power, human brain, particular, powered, practical, uses, very much
«You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
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America, American, Americans, an American, belonging, consist, group, groups, In America, national, not yet, particular, thorough
«The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Tyranny
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advantage, alibi, conscience, further, furthered, furthering, furthers, giving, in particular, particular, Particulars, provides, servants, The People, tyrannies, tyranny, tyrants, welfare
«The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Patriotism,
Time
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advocated, advocating, approaching, be born, classes, deepest, fast, happened, have happened, insult, interest, Interesting Times, offer, particular, patriot, patriotism, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, privileged, system, The Advocate, The Patriot
«We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Friends,
Tolerance
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ass, particular, tolerate
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