Efficacy Quotes

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

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

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm.

- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.