Top 161 Efficacy Quotes & Sayings

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

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

The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm.

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.

We will look at the entire immigration question from the protection of outer borders through the asylum procedures to integration, in particular its efficacy.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities

This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

The Democrats appear to be the only people who still believe there is any efficacy to the UN.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

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

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

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

In order for America to remain the leader in medical innovation, we must reduce costs, ease regulatory burdens, and increase the efficacy of producing new treatments and cures here in the U.S.

Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability

Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility

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

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

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.

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

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

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. That's what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean?

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

The technical side of Ethereum's efficacy is 100% an engineering exercise.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort