Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

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.

we need to be pure in love.

You don’t need to have everything to be happy. Enjoy the moment.

Compassion Enlivens us and enhances our immune system. The more we pour out, the more we find available. 

But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.

I'm incredibly proud of everything that we've achieved in Busted. We've enjoyed some of the best times in our lives together.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.

Smiling the boy fell dead.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.