Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings. — Gayle Pemberton Copy Share Image
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness. — Ursus Wehrli Copy Share Image
I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess. — Hafez Copy Share Image
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People are so complex that you can't possibly know anybody in 90 minutes. — Rod Blackhurst Copy Share Image
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I was riddled with major complexes about my looks. Even now, here and there, these complexes crop up. But… — Dhanush Copy Share Image
As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each… — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society. — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I would say it would be worth it if, in fact, it would - if you could demonstrate that that would be… — Angus King Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Russ Shafer-Landau Copy Share Image
I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain.… — Shuler Hensley Copy Share Image
It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On some level students are essentially the same. They are people with fears and dreams. They laugh and cry over many of… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since… — Udny Yule Copy Share Image
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition,… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions. — Douglas Gwyn Copy Share Image
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos. — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
