The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

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.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.

You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man.