#sing

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior. ↗

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

#education #psychology #raising-children #education

No one owes us anything. We only owe ourselves to get off our backsides, count our blessings, and face our challenges. When you live from that perspective, the gifts pour forth. ↗

— Bronnie Ware

#life

I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain. ↗

— Suzanne Palmieri-Hayes

#decisions #knowing #life #love #life

We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it. ↗

— Gackt

#japanese-singer #life

I have begun to wonder where I came from. The person I am now, this fumbling, stumbling supplicant... was I built on the foundations of my old life, or did I rise from the grave a blank state? How much of me is inherited, and how much is my own creation? Questions that were once just idle musings have begun to feel strangely urgent. Am I firmly rooted to what came before? Or can I choose to deviate? ↗

— Isaac Marion

#life #philosophical-musings #reflection #life

Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them. ↗

— David Kitts

#evolve #life #missing-link #life

And then he felt the misery of his life. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#life

Control yourself or be controlled. ↗

— Jennifer Eden Clark

#life #self-determination #society-s-increasing-stupidity #life

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life. ↗