Attention Quote by Walter Mischel

“Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.”

Walter Mischel

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I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.

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Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

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