Albert Bandura Quotes

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

Watching something is a personal experience, and I think watching something that is dealing with a heavy subject matter, it's a personal thing.

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

It’s less as if he sees me and more as if . . . something happens to him.

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

Once you learn the idea of what a good guy is, you want your dad to be a good guy, and when your dad lets you down and doesn't act like a good guy, it's disappointing and can make you angry as you see it happen, which is beautiful and very believable.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that’s above and beyond what’s expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver.

As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.

Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.

Little losses amaze, great tame.

You can't teach anyone. You can't tell anyone. That's the thing you have to sit down and experience in order for it to mean anything. You can't intellectualize it. It's like why movies are cool. It's a combination of pictures and design and acting and music can create an experience that is outside of the experience that you can actually have in reality, which gets to my motion picture philosophy. People are like, 'aren't you trying to make the movies as real as you can?'

You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.