“As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.” WaySeemsFailingTalentProduceExpectedProvidence Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke
“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.” ThinkingProcessUnderstandingResultsPrinciplesProduceCreaturesCapableAccidentsExpectedComplexityGloriousConstructionUnpredictable Book:Full House Source: Full House
“Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can also be extremely creative and has the audacity to musically understand all that she is doing.” SoundCreativeWonderfulProduceExpectedSingersBrownCan NotAudacity Author:Rufus Reid
“Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes” SelfMotivationBeliefLevelsQualityProduceStandardsPerformancesExpectedFactorsOutcomesControlledTiedMinimumVariationEfficacySelf EfficacyAbove And Below Author:Albert Bandura
“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.” MenDoePoliticalValuesPoliticsWealthExistenceMoralProducePaperStandardsGunGoldProtectionExpectedObjectivesOwnersDestroyingArbitraryMortgageDestroyersCounterfeit Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.” WayWritingFilmWrittenProduceTelevisionDirectorsSticksExpectedProducersMerry Author:Marc Guggenheim