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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. -- William Shenstone
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. -- Edward Gibbon
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion. -- Major Taylor
My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection. -- Luc Montagnier
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying. -- Catherine Marshall
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce. -- Albert Bandura
The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention. -- Umar
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. -- Albert Bandura
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things. -- Albert Bandura
By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy. -- Albert Bandura
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious. -- Nicholas Mosley
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace. -- Thomas Jefferson
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought -- Albert Bandura
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations. -- Albert Bandura
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control. -- Herbert Marcuse
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 -- Albert Bandura
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. -- Albert Bandura
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort. -- Albert Bandura
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard. -- John Maynard Keynes
Long-term power purchase agreements are very important from an Indian perspective, not only in terms of supplying regular power across the country, but also for efficacy of the transmission network. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth. -- Ayn Rand
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy -- Samuel Johnson
I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish. -- Walt Disney
Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action. -- Dallas Willard
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. -- John Milton
Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher. -- Peter Agre
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy -- Albert Bandura
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state -- Albert Bandura
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished -- Albert Bandura
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances -- Albert Bandura
The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another. -- Marion G. Romney
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. -- Moliere
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills -- Albert Bandura
The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy -- Albert Bandura
To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable. -- George Washington
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet -- Jane Austen
The oak ... has not the efficacy of the fir , nor the cypress that of the elm . -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge -- Albert Bandura
The Democrats appear to be the only people who still believe there is any efficacy to the UN. -- Ann Coulter
These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior -- Albert Bandura
Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy -- Albert Bandura
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. -- Ambrose Bierce
Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work? -- John Lancaster Spalding
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal. -- Mary Baker Eddy
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. -- Quintilian
[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy -- Albert Bandura
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place. -- Nathaniel Branden
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style. -- Martha Beck
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. -- John Ruskin
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous -- Albert Bandura
Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have. -- Junot Diaz
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. -- Herbert J. Muller
It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy. -- Judith Lynne Hanna
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses. -- William James
A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation -- Albert Bandura
The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her. -- Jacques Maritain
How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest -- Albert Bandura
We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone. -- John Calvin
The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer. -- Oswald Chambers
Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy -- Albert Bandura
When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort -- Albert Bandura
In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects -- Albert Bandura
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism. -- Saint Augustine
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 -- Albert Bandura
People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology. -- Paul Walker
You had to give credit to anyone who managed to excel at their chosen pastime, be it golf, hang-gliding or hoovering up cocaine with the speed and efficacy of a Dyson Turbo." -- Jamie Holoran
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 -- Albert Bandura
If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments. -- Alexander Hamilton
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 -- Albert Bandura
Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. -- James Madison
Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully -- Albert Bandura
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal. -- Louis de Bernieres

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