Agents Quote by Jerome Bruner Download Open image “We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.” — Jerome Bruner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agents Identity Intention Needs Self
The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else. — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it,… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act… — Richard R. Nelson Copy Share Image