The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

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.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

We will die, but art will remain.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes

If you say something, then it exposes you.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.