Albert Bandura Quotes

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.

I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term 'success' to describe our own performance.

People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

You can't control what you can't measure

To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers

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

Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience

You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.

We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day? We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

"Believe in yourself" - that makes sense. You should believe in yourself - you should believe that you're capable of great things - but you would hope that somebody would have some sort of self-awareness.

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 need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.