Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.

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.

I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.

Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

I know I just need to be me.

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.