Albert Bandura Quotes

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.

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

We usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves, than with reality.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

What we found was that of the people who stopped when there were 24 different flavors of jam out on display only 3% of them actually bought a jar of jam whereas of the people who stopped when there were 6 different flavors of jam 30% of them actually bought a jar of jam.

Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.

I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.

A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways?

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

I want to do something I feel like I can do.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see which has people in it who believe a variety of different things.

We either put out 6 different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam and we looked at 2 things. First, in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam?

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.