The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

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.

See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.

This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume