The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention. — Umar Copy Share Image
By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy. — Albert Bandura 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
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
Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will… — Franz Stampfl 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
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy — Albert Bandura 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
Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and… — Jean Piaget 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
When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services… — Herbert Marcuse 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
“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
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
The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is… — William H. Coles 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
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
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
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
People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image