The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

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

Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.