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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
effort strong attention

People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions

Albert Bandura
effort levels people

Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can

Albert Bandura
effort self people

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
effort exercise people

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Albert Bushnell Hart
resistance effort growth

Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.

Albert C. Barnes
effort appreciation art

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.

Albert Camus
effort wish hands

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

Albert Camus
effort inspirational order

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

Albert Camus
effort government leader

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Albert Camus
effort men death

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

Albert Camus
guilty effort virtue

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

Albert Camus
effort winning mean

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Albert Camus
code-of-ethics effort faces

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.

Albert Einstein
effort goal memorable
The effort to strive for truth has to precede all  by Albert Einstein

The effort to strive for truth has to precede all

Albert Einstein
priorities effort truth
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he co... by Albert Einstein

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

Albert Einstein
effort letters book
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objectiv... by Albert Einstein

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

Albert Einstein
chiefs effort men

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

Albert Einstein
effort goes-on way

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

Albert Einstein
luxury superficial effort
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from wit... by Albert Einstein

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Albert Einstein
effort math sweet
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