Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

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.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

By-and-by never comes.

Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.