Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry

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.

A place with no handholds, no landmarks, no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's also much easier to do that before they come up and begin to talk to us.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.

The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.