Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

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.

Don’t try to search out a better profile to start with your work but you should start your work for create a better profile.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

For me, family has always come first.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

I was trying to be an entrepreneur at seven years old.

Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up.