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

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

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

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.