A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

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.

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.