Roy F. Baumeister

“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

“Emotional control typically relies on various subtle tricks, such as changing how one thinks about the problem at hand, or distracting oneself.…

— Roy F. Baumeister

“the British humorist Sir A. P. Herbert nicely described the conflicting set of symptoms: “Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!”…

— Roy F. Baumeister

“We’ve seen parents successfully use a variant of this approach when an infant cries to be fed. Instead of immediately feeding the…

— Roy F. Baumeister

“We’ve said that willpower is humans’ greatest strength, but the best strategy is not to rely on it in all situations. Save…

— Roy F. Baumeister

“The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with…

— Roy F. Baumeister

“the unconscious is asking the conscious mind to make a plan.”

— Roy F. Baumeister

“Napoleon once summarized his idea of strategic military planning: “You engage, and then you wait and see.” By making contact with the…

— Roy F. Baumeister

“What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions.”

— Roy F. Baumeister

“Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man, “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought…

— Roy F. Baumeister

“Getting Things Done,”

— Roy F. Baumeister

“Religion deals with the highest levels of meaning. As a result, it can interpret each life or each event in a context…

— Roy F. Baumeister

“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…

— Roy F. Baumeister