Walter Mischel Quotes

If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think.

Walter Mischel

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• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Happen

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Done

• The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Best
  • Waiting

• It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Cry
  • Busy

• I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Kids

• Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like 'What Sarah Said': I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Song

• I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Complacency

• I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • Up
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I think it's safe to say people are going to be interested in Kim Kardashian's love choices for the next 30 years. But they can take a minute to think about the new robotic arm that could replace the one they lost to cancer. Then they can keep thinking about Kim Kardashian.

  

  James Woods
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Lost

• Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Friends

• You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • War

• Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

  

  Jim Drain
  • Thinking
  • Art

• I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Up
  • Thinking

• When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Nice

• We want to make sure that the kind of ballpark we agreed upon will be built, that it can be paid for as we have agreed, that the team be able to exercise adequate control over the ballpark site, that we understand the limits of the legislative power to further rewrite contracts we enter into and that the balance of burdens and benefits agreed to by us in mediation is readdressed, since it has been seriously disrupted by the legislation.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Control
  • Balance
  • Exercise

• It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Powers

• . . . your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • True
  • Dance
  • Voice

• If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Knows