“The page-a-day folks had done well and generally gotten tenure. The so-called “binge writers” fared far less well, and many had had their careers cut short. The clear implication was that the best advice for young writers and aspiring professors… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“First I make a list of priorities: one, two, three, and so on. Then I cross out everything from three on down.” — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“Emotional control typically relies on various subtle tricks, such as changing how one thinks about the problem at hand, or distracting oneself. Hence,” — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“the British humorist Sir A. P. Herbert nicely described the conflicting set of symptoms: “Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!” he announced.… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“We’ve seen parents successfully use a variant of this approach when an infant cries to be fed. Instead of immediately feeding the crying child,… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“We’ve said that willpower is humans’ greatest strength, but the best strategy is not to rely on it in all situations. Save it for… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with the ones… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“Napoleon once summarized his idea of strategic military planning: “You engage, and then you wait and see.” By making contact with the enemy and… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions.” — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man, “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“Religion deals with the highest levels of meaning. As a result, it can interpret each life or each event in a context that runs… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
