Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

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.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.