Albert Bandura Quotes

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

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

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

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

To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

I think self-esteem comes from work.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we’re magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.

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

The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.

Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem.

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

We are what we think.

Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I CAN do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can."