Albert Bandura Quotes

Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"

Never allow anyone else to define your success.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

I think success has a different definition for everyone.

I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself.

I look primarily at my own expectations. These include improving steadily.

People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful.

I don't really see myself as a success. I just don't look at it that way.

No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.

It's much nicer to be praised than to be damned. But you have to have a certain sense of your own priorities and ideas about what works and what doesn't because otherwise, if you're just looking for eternal validation all the time, you can be motivated by the wrong things and I don't think it's as personally satisfying in your own work.

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff. What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there's some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.

Does what you think of you determine your worth?

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.