People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.

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.

Your task is not to find a job but to find what makes you happy and do it with all your love.

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

The trick is to never lose hope!