To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying. — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention. — Umar Copy Share Image
The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another. — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. — Moliere Copy Share Image
- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with… — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at… — Luc Montagnier Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a… — Phil Crane Copy Share Image
Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“Albert Bandura, a Stanford psychologist who has done much of the research on self-efficacy, sums it up well: “People’s beliefs about their… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number… — Hans Alfred Nieper Copy Share Image
Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies… — William James Copy Share Image
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image