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«Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.»
«Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.»
«A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.»
«Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.»
«Our egos tells us we're the only ones that have any kind of feelings. We're the only ones with a relationship. We're the only ones with family. You know, I think that if you kill a spider, there is a relationship that you're ruining. There's a conversation going on outside with the other spiders. 'Did you hear about Chris?....Killed yeah....Sneaker. And now Stephanie has nine hundred babies to raise all alone. Well, she's got her legs full I'll tell you that right now. Chris was so kind, wouldn't hurt a fly. It's just been tough for them lately. They just lost their web last week. Those humans think they're so smart. Let them try shooting silk out of their butt and see what they can make.'»
«By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God»
«Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke (Humorist, Journalist, Writer) | About: Children, Parents | Keywords: raise
«Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the wil»
«Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!»
«Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times»