Attributions Quotes

#1. Successful companies will almost always be described in terms of a clear strategy, good organization, strong corporate culture, and customer focus. But whether these things drive company performance, or whether they're mainly attributions based on performance, is a different matter.

Phil Rosenzweig

#2. Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

Albert Bandura

#3. We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

John Searle

#4. Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

Albert Bandura

#5. False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

Winston Smith

#6. In a more incremental world, attributions and rewards will still be contested, no doubt, but particular outcomes will no longer make or break lives.

Jaron Lanier

#7. well-documented findings in the study of attributions is that we are more likely to ascribe traits to others, whereas we explain our own actions according to the situations we are in.

Brian Little

#8. Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.

John Searle

#9. The lone attendant wasn't paying any attention to the register; he just stood, mouth half open, holding the remote like maybe if he could change the channel he could change the future. The Moon was gone.

John Joseph Adams

#10. Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.
This is not one of those memoirs.

Kate Madison

#11. Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.

Adam C. Engst

#12. People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn't belong to them.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#13. The air outside was tomato-sweet and hickory-smoked, all at once delicious and strange. It automatically made her touch her tongue to her lips.

Sarah Addison Allen

#14. If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

Raymond E. Feist

#15. The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#16. Certainly, if the world ever is saved, it'll be by somebody young enough not to know that it can't be done.

Donald Hamilton

#17. Biologically and temperamentally ... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

Benjamin Spock

#18. Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

Philip Levine

#19. I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.

Laura Benanti

#20. Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.

Mario Cuomo

#21. all things are the manifestation of one thing only.

Paulo Coelho