Geoffrey Miller Quotes
If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.
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I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.
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Whenever I am in Paris, all I want to do is inhale a big plate of cheese. And in New York, my favourite thing is a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Not only do I not avoid carbs, I more or less have them in every meal. When I start denying myself foods, that's when I crave them.
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Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.
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Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.
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And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
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Determination is all very well if you want to jump off a tower. But will power is not enough when it comes to cooking beef and noodles.
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I was totally gassed. I ran out of gas at the 30-yard line. Only willpower kept me going toward the end zone.
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History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.
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I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.
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Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.
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I'm a good boy! I do what I'm told; I'm on time. I'm always where I'm supposed to be when I'm supposed to be there. I don't mess around with other people's time and schedule. And I eat my vegetables. And my meats. And my carbs. And my dairy.
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The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.
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Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.
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I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.
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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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...we must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change and not to abandon our people in the times to come.
