The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
I had a direct experience of the efficacy of this form of mind-body medicine. This comes from somebody who had been sort… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I… — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
“I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At… — Judy Polumbaum Copy Share Image
That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy.… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“I would tell young journalists to be brave and go against the tide. When everyone else is relying on the internet, you… — Judy Polumbaum Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given… — William James Copy Share Image
In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts'… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s,… — Paul Solman Copy Share Image
People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image