Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Anil Kapoor

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Alla Nazimova

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Alison Lohman

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

Alison Lohman

I like to take a character and develop it

Alison Elliott

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

Alison Pill

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Ann Brashares

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Ann Brashares

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

J. I. Packer

Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.

Anson Dorrance

I was very excited about the fact we did some good things. We created some good chances. No complaints about the final results. 1-0 Mexico is fine by me.

Larry Moore

I'm proud of how the kids played. The only thing that I can complain about is that we didn't win the game.

Neil Jackson

It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

Brett Mackey

We are happy. We're at the point where we are taking it one game at a time. I think the girls have really got some confidence rolling; they are really playing as a team. The effort is always there every night. That's something I can't complain about.

Virginia Postrel

'CSI' has not only remained a top-rated show through seven seasons; it has had real-world consequences. Police and prosecutors complain of a 'CSI' effect' that leads juries to demand more physical evidence than they used to expect. College officials use the same term to describe spiking enrollment in forensic-science programs.

Kristy Curry

We've missed her more than people understand but you don't complain about the things you can't control.

John Jacobs

There are a lot of guys I like who I don't necessarily want to play a lot of golf with. For all kinds of reasons -- they might play too slow, they might complain a lot, they might get too pissed off. Golf can do funny things to a guy's personality.

Edgar Winter

I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

Doug Miller

Being young, sometimes you don't know how to control your emotions. He'll mature. I'd take him on my team any time.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Emilie Heymans

I think I was trying to control the first two dives too much and didn't let it go enough. My reverse dive in the fourth round was the one I was most happy with because I had struggled with it in practice.

Joanne Boyle

I think I was the first one out of the seat. I started jumping. It was out of control in the locker room. I think it took us all a couple of seconds to process it because there were only a couple of seeds left. When we all registered it was us, it was mayhem.

Maria Sharapova

I thought I played really well, ... I was in control for most of the match.

Jim Denny

You just learn patience, and you learn that some things are out of your control.

Dong Tao

Will the government really hit the brakes? I doubt it. Much of the investment is following government instructions. It's in second- and third-tier cities. This is what the government wants. They've regained solid control over inflation.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

John Cislo

Winning two road games puts us in position to control our destiny in getting a home playoff game. It would be good to get one at home.

T. Boone Pickens

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.

Peter Lynch

I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.

Plutarch

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Terry Goodkind

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

Terry Goodkind

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

Joseph Conrad

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

Leonard Cohen

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

Paulo Coelho

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

Paul Kurtz

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Albert Bandura

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others

Albert Bandura

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

Albert Bandura

Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements

Albert Bandura

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

Albert Bandura

In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

Albert Bandura

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

Albert Bandura

Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency

Albert Bandura

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

Albert Bandura

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.