Efficacy Quotes

Efficacy Quote of the day

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.

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort

Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.

In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

The Democrats appear to be the only people who still believe there is any efficacy to the UN.

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

One cannot afford to be a realist.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

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

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior