Efficacy Quotes

• The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspiring, Men, Inspire

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Taboo and Metaphor", 1925.

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• 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.

  Albert Bandura

  Fear, Struggle, Self

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• Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Way, Teach

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Expectations, Outcomes

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

  William Shenstone

  Increase, Insincerity, Instance

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.155

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• I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

  Major Taylor

  Inspiration, Athlete, Long

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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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

  Strong, Effort, Attention

  "Self-efficacy Mechanism in Human Agency". American Psychologist, Volume 37, No. 2, February 1982.

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• My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

  Luc Montagnier

  Vaccines, People, Population

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

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Instruction, Disposition

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.79

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

  Catherine Marshall

  Prayer, Believe, Praying

  Catherine Marshall (1961). “Beyond Our Selves, A Pilgrimage in Faith”

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• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  Walt Disney

  Powerful, Stress, Believe

  "How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams and Jim Denney, August 1, 2004.

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• Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Doe, Belief

  "Self-efficacy: The exercise of control". Book by Albert Bandura (p. 77), February 15, 1997.

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Giving, Desire

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.77, Algora Publishing

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• After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By sticking it out through tough times, they emerge stronger from adversity.

  Albert Bandura

  Adversity, People, Tough Times

  "Self-Efficacy". web.stanford.edu. 1994.

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Belief, Action

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• Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

  Samuel Johnson

  Dresses, Would Be, Employment

  Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham”, p.55

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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Lacking

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  John Milton

  Life, Book, Soul

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Eggs, Creative

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• 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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Gold, Investing

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the measure of abhorrent acts, all sorts of unspeakable crimes somehow become acceptable. I may have found myself on the wrong side of government on torture. But I'm on the right side of history. There are things we should not do, even in the name of national security. One of them, I now firmly believe, is torture.

  John Kiriakou

  Believe, Names, Government

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• The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements.

  Eric Schneiderman

  Taken, Health, Safety

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• Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind. ...the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question.

  Phil Crane

  Cancer, Dark, Years

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• In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true pinkroot with quantities of other plants.

  Michael Savage

  Dark, Years, Two

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

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Doubt, Trying, Obstacles

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