Walter Mischel Quotes

Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.

Walter Mischel

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• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Power
  • High

• To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Power
  • Like
  • Trump

• We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Important
  • Attention

• Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Children
  • Attention
  • Class

• No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Power

• Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Girl

• Crowley wanted to be a magician because he wanted power - power over other people.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • People
  • Power

• You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Power
  • Boy
  • Gay

• We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Focus

• I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Good
  • God
  • Character

• In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Time
  • Money
  • American

• Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Power

• The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

  

  Craig L. Thomas
  • Power
  • War
  • Environment

• I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Good
  • Business
  • Movie

• I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Beautiful
  • Past
  • Powerful

• The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Needs
  • Beach
  • Bigs

• It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.

  

  Mercy Otis Warren
  • People
  • Government
  • Becoming

• The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Earth
  • Freedom
  • Spiritual

• Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Matter