Referent Quotes

#1. In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

Albert Bandura

#2. With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

Ravi Zacharias

#3. The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

Roman Jakobson

#4. Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

Albert Bandura

#5. Reality cannot be captured by language - not even the language of mathematics - since all language, by its very nature, is man-made, self-referent ambiguity.

Dee Hock

#6. Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

Roland Barthes

#7. Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

Jean Baudrillard

#8. 'American Sniper' is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war and its aftermath to cheap entertainment, with an underexplained referent to the mental problems many vets live with when they return home from the war.

Henry Giroux

#9. Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps

Albert Bandura

#10. Grandmamma had been the last connection to our past. I had understood her as some referent moral authority to whom we paid no heed, but by whose judgments we measured our waywardness.

E.L. Doctorow

#11. The critical image ... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

Judith Butler

#12. A "game" that will give everyone the consoling impression of making contact, together, with the ultimate transcendent referent.

David Foster Wallace

#13. They would be able to tell. Even the most bruto would see the death in your eyes.

Junot Diaz

#14. Leather means possession. Turquoise traditionally represents protection. Together they mean you belong to the man who put it around your neck.

Kim Dare

#15. The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

Theodore Parker

#16. For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

Tory Burch

#17. Yeah, that went really well. What, I wasn't gentle enough for you? Were you looking for flowers and candles? You don't like to sweat? Are you really a romantic under the tough guy swagger?"

Gabriel straightened. "No, but Oz said that you are."

~Dev/Gabe

Sydney Croft

#18. Silence gives answers.

Rumi

#19. There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.

Robert Webb

#20. To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own.

Sarah Arthur

#21. Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#22. Life Is Like A Carnival Ride, It Has Its Ups, Its Downs, And All Its Twerks. But We All Know That In The End It Was Fun And Worth The Wild Ride

Terrin White