Quotes about self
self-esteem stranger esteem
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
self-esteem narcissism middle
I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism. Anne Lamott
self stories golden
I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.
self-esteem humility ego
I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
self parent identity
No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
self laughing people
It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
self hook
When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
self-esteem college years
I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about! Anna Chlumsky
self shining joy
I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too? Ann Voskamp
self government contradiction
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. Alastair Reynolds
self media regulation
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed. Alastair Campbell
self males alpha-male
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
self views skills
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 Albert Bandura
self outcomes causality
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished
self people may
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
self tasks levels
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
self action belief
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.
self evaluation standards
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
self-esteem insecure people
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
self reactions self-efficacy
Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others
self skills achievement
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
self improvement standards
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
self anxiety doe
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
self social-behavior speak
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior
self achievement notable
Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements
self boost efficacy
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy
self information evaluation
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience
self perspective acting
Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object
self dysfunction problem
Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency
self people efficacy
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
self way efficacy
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
self demand may
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge
self discrepancies-between tasks
Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous