To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

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.

somehow people forget that there is God....what more to us we're just individuals, , to forget is part of imperfections..

We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.

There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.

Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

Fashion allows you to be whoever you want to be.

Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!