Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

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.

The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job

As Christmas approaches remember all that you have experienced - has not been in vain.

You don't need any skill to run.......Every 3-year old knows how to run

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.

If you're married you'll have tough times.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.