Scott Adams Quotes
The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings.
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.
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I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.
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I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret.
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The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.
