Walter Mischel Quotes

If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

Walter Mischel

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• Retirement
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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Words
  • Better
  • Silence

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Father
  • Dad

• I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Work
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Life
  • Value
  • Impact

• The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Home
  • Kids

• I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • English
  • Language

• 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Tiger

• People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Truth
  • Drive
  • Truth Is

• When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

  

  Taylor Handley
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and guitar.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham

• We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Light

• I shop almost exclusively online, from brands like Eloquii, ASOS, Elizabeth Suzann, or Rachel Comey, if one of their straight-size pieces has a little extra room.

  

  Aidy Bryant

• If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • Television
  • Emotion
  • Retirement