It is plain that we were meant to go together.
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior
It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy
Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed
Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities
Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.
We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us. . . Tonight I just wanted to take a minute, a moment and soak it in and be a kid from Robbins Illinois and be a kid from Marquette University.