If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen 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
Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work? — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace. — Anonymous 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
. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately… — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
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
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the… — James Madison 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
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the… — Joseph Campbell 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
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
It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations. — 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
How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a… — Albert Bandura 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
These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The Democrats appear to be the only people who still believe there is any efficacy to the UN. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image