Albert Bandura Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.

  Albert Bandura

  Exercise, People, Effort

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

• Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm

  Albert Bandura

  Successful, Irreparable Harm, People

• Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

  Albert Bandura

  Everyday, Suffering, Trying

  Albert Bandura (1977). “Social learning theory”, Prentice Hall ; Toronto : Prentice-Hall of Canada

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