The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

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.

Friendship is a door you will never need to knot on as you will always have a key.

The beginning of a life of greatness starts from you becoming the biggest fan of your positive self.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.

He don't know what it is to lose, so I gotta teach him something that he doesn't know yet.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.