Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.

They fell in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose

... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.

We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

I just don't give off a great first impression.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.