Baumeister Quotes

#1. It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Ally Condie

#2. People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

Roy Baumeister

#3. Baumeister's group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion. In

Daniel Kahneman

#4. Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

Roy Baumeister

#5. I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

Ruben Ostlund

#6. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

John Milton

#7. The bold implication of this idea is that the effects of ego depletion could be undone by ingesting glucose, and Baumeister and his colleagues have confirmed this hypothesis in several experiments.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for.

Benjamin Graham

#9. If you own a toll road, you don't care how many passengers are in each car or what kind of car it is. You just want as many cars to move down the road as possible, and you make damn certain they pay their tolls, okay?

Richard Kinder

#10. Right ... What do you do for a living, Smiley?" "After the war I was at Oxford for a bit. Teaching and research. I'm in London now." "One of those clever coves, eh?

John Le Carre

#11. Whenever we are attacked, people are willing to give up someone else's liberties for their own security.

Andrew P. Napolitano

#12. Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

Roy Baumeister

#13. I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

D. A. Pennebaker

#14. I wouldn't get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun shines, I just want to be outdoors.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

Evgeny Morozov

#16. The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.

Roy F. Baumeister

#17. Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did ... people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.

Roy Baumeister

#18. However you define success - a happy family, good friends, a satisfying career, robust health, financial security, the freedom to pursue your passions - it tends to be accompanied by a couple of qualities.

Roy F. Baumeister

#19. Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

Roy Baumeister

#20. Skateboarding is not for girls at all.

Nyjah Huston

#21. It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

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

Roy F. Baumeister

#23. For most of us ... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

Roy Baumeister

#24. Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

Roy Baumeister

#25. The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

Roy Baumeister

#26. What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

Roy Baumeister

#27. Getting things down to routines and habits takes willpower at first but in the long run conserves willpower," says Baumeister.

Laura Vanderkam

#28. Most people who perpetrate evil do not see what they are doing as evil. Evil exists primarily in the eye of the beholder, especially in the eye of the victim.

Roy F. Baumeister

#29. Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

Roy Baumeister