Albert Bandura Quotes

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

How'm I doing?

True confidence is firmly planted in reality. To grow your confidence, it's important to do an honest and accurate self-assessment of your abilities. If there are weaknesses in your skill set, make plans for strengthening these skills and find ways to minimize their negative impact.

It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

If I'm in a room full of intense people, I'm pretty normal. If I'm in a room full of people who aren't, maybe I'm intense. I don't know, I don't think of it that way.

I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

A conscious nation is the one that reconsiders itself, from time to time, without waiting for others to dictate for it.

I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.

It's important to know what you can do and what you can't.

Our friends are barometers of our own lives: We look to our BFFs to better understand how we're doing ourselves. Our friends help us make sense of what we have, what we aspire to, and what we truly long for.

If we're evaluating cool to the way other rappers appear to be cool, then I'm not cool at all.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others