Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

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.

We call them grunters. They're ghost hunters but grunters is more appropriate because most of them are pigs.

I am not afraid of what god can do to me. He is already doing it

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

The freedom that I wanted as a kid would - probably would not have been good for me and not in the way in which I wanted it.

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.