Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

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.

It's part of the institution of teshuva, if you make a mistake, you have to restore it as you can.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.

National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is in proper to discuss such details in a public forum.

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

Above all have respect for yourself.