#comp

Make no judgements where you have no compassion. ↗

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#criteria #defined #doing #find #how

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #complex #easy #i #motivation

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#arcane #due #failures #four #i

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#belief #competitor #i #mean #you

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#believe #earth #encompasses #god #i

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go. ↗

— Jo Brand

#completely #go #hard #place #settled

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#appetite #men #need #some #some men

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#another #duties #her #his #i

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ↗