Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

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.

Once a day has begun eventfully, it generally carries on being every bit as lively.

I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.

If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

When you do what you're supposed to do, each door opens up maybe 10-15 other doors.

We always say, one day we will laugh at this. I always try to make sure that this one day is today.

I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.