Adept Quote by Albert Bandura

“The actor, like the modern man of reason, must have his place determined and his lines memorized before he goes on stage. (...) The…

— John Ralston Saul

Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

— Oscar Munoz

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

— H. L. Mencken

It is only doubt that creates.

— H. L. Mencken

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

— Albert Bandura

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

— Albert Bandura

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

— Albert Bandura

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