Inefficacy Quotes & Sayings

Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities — Albert Bandura

Walking down a certain road is the best method to realize how challenging it could be. — Eraldo Banovac

Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. — Cory Doctorow

I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational advantages. No, I think it comes from the sense that politically, the wealthy have overwhelming power in this society and there's nothing, say a lot of people, that we can do about it. That is simply wrong — Paul Solman

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it. — Elbert Hubbard

'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa. — Dambisa Moyo

From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the extent that people believe they can prevent, terminate, or lessen the severity of aversive events, they have little reason to be perturbed by them. But if they believe they are unable to manage threats safely, they have much cause for apprehension — Albert Bandura

Life must be lived forward but only makes sense by looking backward. Only in retrospect do the pieces of the puzzle connect, revealing an intelligently orchestrated evolution. Our journey through life is in a way like walking blindfolded. — Dorit Brauer

I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc. — Benigno Aquino III

In order to function, the people who operate such a system of drawers must be reprogrammed to stop thinking as humans and to start thinking as clerks and accountants. — Yuval Noah Harari

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not — Albert Bandura

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend — Albert Bandura

Us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, — Charles Dickens

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority. — Margo Kelly