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

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

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.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

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

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought