Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

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.

Relax and renew your mind.

So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol??

You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.

It's easy to choose doing what you love when there are people out there supporting you.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes to get me going. My body has actually started craving it.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?