The satisfactions people derive from what they do are…

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic…

— Herbert Hoover

Some people derive pleasure in constructive work while some are happy in destruction.

— Uddhav Thackeray

People derive the most satisfaction from doing the best they can.

— Isadore Sharp

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

— Enrico Fermi

“Swedes are raised with the idea that people derive a strong sense of security from being part of a group, which in turn allows…

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz

In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body. To be…

— Eckhart Tolle

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from…

— Marcel Proust

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities…

— Albert Bandura

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future,…

— Albert Bandura

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

— Albert Bandura

Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have…

— Albert Bandura

People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying…

— Albert Bandura

Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among…

— Albert Bandura

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

— Albert Bandura

Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles…

— Albert Bandura