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.
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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.
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.
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.
The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.
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.
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state
I had a direct experience of the efficacy of this form of mind-body medicine. This comes from somebody who had been sort of an alpha male, highly cynical war correspondent, who had basically seen it all and heard it all, was cynical and trusted nothing.
The oak. . . has not the efficacy of the fir , nor the cypress that of the elm.
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.
If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.
The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.
To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.