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

Change your introduction so that you can change the outcome. Engage clients or they'll be thinking divorce.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.