Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

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.

Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

GSP is good, but don't get me wrong he better stay at 170 with the other midgetts.

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

When you love yourself, you'll feel sorry for those that hate you instead of hating them back.

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.