Albert Bandura famous quotes

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
-- Albert Bandura

#Fear #Struggle #Self

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
-- Albert Bandura

#People #Challenges #Tasks

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #Doe #Belief

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
-- Albert Bandura

#Doe #Action #Behavior

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
-- Albert Bandura

#Jobs #Quality #Negative

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.
-- Albert Bandura

#Inspirational #Thinking #People

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.
-- Albert Bandura

#Reflection #Thinking #People

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

#Self #Belief #Action

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
-- Albert Bandura

#Reality #Our Actions #Action

By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.
-- Albert Bandura

#Adversity #People #Tough Times

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
-- Albert Bandura

#Theory

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #Expectations #Outcomes

One cannot afford to be a realist.
-- Albert Bandura

#Realist

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.
-- Albert Bandura

#Believe #Thinking #People

Once established, reputations do not easily change.
-- Albert Bandura

#Reputation

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
-- Albert Bandura

#Philosophy #Educational #Self

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
-- Albert Bandura

#Believe #Successful #Exercise

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
-- Albert Bandura

#Powerful #Fall #Mean

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #Way #Efficacy

Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #Psychological #Domain

If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
-- Albert Bandura

#Children #Growing Up #Kids

This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.
-- Albert Bandura

#Communication #Reality #Sitting

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #Textbooks #Tools

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #People #Efficacy

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
-- Albert Bandura

#Teacher #Subjects

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
-- Albert Bandura

#Inspirational #Circumstances #Producers

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.
-- Albert Bandura

#Ideas #People #Would Be

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
-- Albert Bandura

#Mean #People #Psychology

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
-- Albert Bandura

#People #Profound #Belief

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
-- Albert Bandura

#Everyday #Suffering #Trying

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
-- Albert Bandura

#Accomplishment #Criteria #Ill

Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.
-- Albert Bandura

#Strong #Effort #Attention