Trust me, my parents have about as much impulse control as…

“With the prefrontal cortex down-regulated, most impulse control mechanisms go offline too. For people who aren't used to this combination, the results can be…

— Steven Kotler

“We process emotionally salient information more rapidly and automatically, but with less accuracy. Frontal function—working memory, impulse control, executive decision making, risk assessment, and…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Work by Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania, Tom Boyce of UCSF, and others demonstrates something outrageous: By age five, the lower a…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the…

— Jeffrey Kluger

“very last section of the brain to mature, during the teenage years and early twenties, is the prefrontal cortex, which controls judgment, impulse control,…

— Sarah Ockwell-Smith

“As each day passed the community became more and more indoctrinated into the world of psychobabble. It was used to keep patients in subservient…

— M.D Stephanie Schoenberger

“The Codex actually sounds kind of creepy here. “Yeeeees, tell me eeeeeverything.” I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control.…

— Cassandra Clare

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a…

— Jared Harris

“Isn’t it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment? We say, “Well, this ____ and that ____ happened, so it…

— Alaric Hutchinson

“You have one energy resource that is used for all kinds of acts for self-control. That includes not just resisting food temptations, but also…

— Laura Vanderkam

“Well," he asked, "whaddya expect?" It was so obviously a rhetorical question that of course I answered it. My truth impulse seemed stronger around…

— Melissa Jensen

“The major impairments of ADD — the distractibility, the hyperactivity and the poor impulse control — reflect, each in its particular way, a lack…

— Gabor Maté

“According to a study from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, sleep deprivation reduces our emotional intelligence, self-regard, assertiveness, sense of independence, empathy…

— Arianna Huffington

“During the worst time of Jesse’s cycle, the “worry” region of her brain was overactive, which caused her to become fixated on things, and…

— Daniel G. Amen

“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal…

— Kilroy J. Oldster