Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
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
Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place. ' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space. . . so that there was a layered, shallow depth.
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.