How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of,… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with… — Feist Copy Share Image
The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate.… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers,… — Courtney Martin Copy Share Image
There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are… — William Ickes Copy Share Image
When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior… — James Laver Copy Share Image
It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I think the accurate description for the George W. Bush administration is a military plutocracy. Having lived and worked in the United… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more… — Andrei Shleifer Copy Share Image
... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Obviously, the opinions that are most accurate are the ones that are closest to you - your crew, your friends, your family.… — Joey Logano Copy Share Image
Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
[Isaiah] Berlin's observation is accurate enough, and applies at home as well, and even more harshly for the reasons already mentioned: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? Photography today is so accurate and… — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image