Top 100 Gretchen Quotes

#1. One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #1095
#2. Extroversion: response to reward Neuroticism: response to threat Conscientiousness: response to inhibition (self-control, planning) Agreeableness: regard for others Openness to experience: breadth of mental associations

Gretchen Rubin

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#3. The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Quotes #7625
#4. I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Quotes #9010
#5. Now is now. Here is my treasure.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #17324
#6. Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #20287
#7. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity

Gretchen Rubin

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#8. As Michel de Montaigne observed, "The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
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Gretchen Rubin

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#9. Once the habit is in place, we can effortlessly do the things we want to do.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #44986
#10. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #53338
#11. To Hope and to many more turkey sandwiches." "Thank you," I said, the cold turkey warming my stomach. After

Gretchen Olson

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#12. I've learned to put great store in my own observations of everyday life, because while laboratory experiments are one way to study human nature, they aren't the only way.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #60863
#13. I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #62515
#14. She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.

Gretchen McNeil

Gretchen Quotes #73956
#15. It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #75637
#16. There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #75797
#17. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #75979
#18. As expected, the church lady grumbled something incoherent and put Bridget's call on hold. A peppy rendition of "City of God" blared as hold music just long enough for Bridget to start to sing along with the chorus. Catholic brainwashing at its best.

Gretchen McNeil

Gretchen Quotes #77103
#19. Here we go again. Pandering to the .3 percent of the American population that consider themselves transgender. Now I get to explain this to my 8-year-old, if I just wanted to watch a nice family show with some nice music.

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Quotes #81012
#20. I sat on that crowded bus, I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change. In that single moment, with that realization, I decided to dedicate a year to trying to be happier.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #88550
#21. I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

Gretchen Mol

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#22. Act the way that you want to feel.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #98912
#23. Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #100158
#24. Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #103686
#25. I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

Gretchen Mol

Gretchen Quotes #107734
#26. Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

Gretchen Wilson

Gretchen Quotes #111472
#27. I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #115561
#28. There is only love.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #117700
#29. Cause I'm a redneck woman.

Gretchen Wilson

Gretchen Quotes #126582
#30. Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #130106
#31. A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence
easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #134660
#32. Perfection may be an impossible goal, but habits help us to do better. Making headway toward a good habit, doing better than before, saves us from facing the end of another year with the mournful wish, once again, that we'd done things differently.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #139479
#33. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #142511
#34. Good music is good music.

Gretchen Wilson

Gretchen Quotes #147664
#35. By a sizable margin, walking, especially when the athletes landed first with their heels, was the most economical way for human beings to move.

Gretchen Reynolds

Gretchen Quotes #150637
#36. studies show that the absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good. One

Gretchen Rubin

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#37. Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #155503
#38. The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life.

Gretchen Rubin

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#39. The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

Gretchen Rubin

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#40. Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.

Gretchen Rubin

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#41. Try to never say 'yes' on the phone; instead, say, 'I'll get back to you.' When you're actually speaking to someone, the desire to be accommodating is very strong, and can lead you to say 'yes' without enough consideration.

Gretchen Rubin

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#42. Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please ... It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

Gretchen Rubin

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#43. Gratitude needs to come back in a big way and I hope to encourage people to get involved.

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Quotes #175217
#44. Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #176283
#45. By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

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#46. Be a storehouse of happy memories.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #180689
#47. I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.

Gretchen Mol

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#48. Progress, not perfection, is the goal. I'm a gold-star junkie,

Gretchen Rubin

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#49. Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Quotes #192945
#50. They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #199260
#51. People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

Gretchen Rubin

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#52. Studies show that people tend to persevere longer with problems they've been told are difficult as opposed to easy.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #209889
#53. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can too.

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Quotes #210286
#54. I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Quotes #212523
#55. Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Gretchen Rubin

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#56. Looks like sunsets are growing on you.

Gretchen Powell

Gretchen Quotes #220787
#57. If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #223281
#58. Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

Gretchen Rubin

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#59. I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

Gretchen Rubin

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#60. One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Gretchen Rubin

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#61. Eliminating clutter would cut down the amount of housework in the average home by 40 percent.

Gretchen Rubin

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#62. It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others. This makes sense, because we're far more aware of what we do than what other people do. Also, we tend to do the work that we value.

Gretchen Rubin

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#63. I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

Gretchen Rubin

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#64. The first time I was asked whether women can "have it all" was at the Miss America pageant. I said no. I didn't mean that women shouldn't fully pursue their dreams, only that we need to be honest with ourselves.

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Quotes #264225
#65. Say "no" only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, "All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Gretchen Rubin

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#66. Gretchen," Clint said, his voice full of the same luscious agony Gretchen felt building inside of her. "I'm going to kiss you."
He was giving her one last chance to back out, to push him away. That was not going to happen.
Her mouth twisted with amusement. "Not if I kiss you first.

Aria Kane

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#67. Plant the seed, set the target, live your life.

Gretchen Bleiler

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#68. You hit> a goal, you keep a resolution.

Gretchen Rubin

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#69. I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.

Gretchen Rubin

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#70. Traveling into the unfamiliar is quite an adventure for a blind person. It makes me feel like a real explorer.

Gretchen Preston

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#71. There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities.

Gretchen Reynolds

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#72. My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.

Gretchen Rubin

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#73. Give warm greetings and farewells. I was surprised by how much this resolution changed the atmosphere of my home.

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Quotes #303997
#74. The nine pounds Gretchen had gained must've come from her new brass balls.

Jeaniene Frost

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#75. The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

Gretchen Rubin

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#76. Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Gretchen Rubin

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#77. As Samuel Johnson said, To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Gretchen Rubin

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#78. Wilson, think of this as the beginning. Not the end.

Gretchen De La O

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#79. In an interview in the Paris Review, novelist and Rebel John Gardner made an observation that I've never forgotten: Every time you break the law you pay, and every time you obey the law you pay.

Gretchen Rubin

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#80. Mere acquisition isn't enough to establish a good habit

Gretchen Rubin

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#81. Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." Contemporary researchers make the same argument: that it isn't goal attainment but the process of striving after goals-that is, growth-that brings happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

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#82. After someone's death, how strange to see the value drain away from his or her possessions; useful objects such as clothes, or dish towels, or personal papers become little more than trash.

Gretchen Rubin

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#83. This freedom from decision making is crucial, because when I have to decide - which often involves resisting temptation or postponing gratification - I tax my self-control.

Gretchen Rubin

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#84. It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind intention become a source of clutter itself. I have a friend who has multiple piles all over her house, each lovingly destined for a particular recipient.

Gretchen Rubin

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#85. I don't read all the junk. I joke if I did, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. But, Sometimes the comments over the top - really ugly. Many of them are critical of my looks, like the one that criticized my "thunder thighs." I get that a lot. Some of the tweets are too vulgar to repeat.

Gretchen Carlson

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#86. To a truly remarkable extent, we're more likely to do something if it's convenient, and less likely if it's not. For this reason, we should pay close attention to the convenience of any activity we want to make into a habit.

Gretchen Rubin

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#87. It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is much less inviting.

Gretchen Rubin

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#88. It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

Gretchen Wilson

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#89. The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts. - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Gretchen Rubin

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#90. Most decisions don't require extensive research.

Gretchen Rubin

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#91. Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.

Gretchen Carlson

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#92. You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.

Gretchen Rubin

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#93. We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

Gretchen Rubin

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#94. Max ran his fingers across his temple as he tugged his hair away from his bottomless, green eyes. I was so caught in his web. He could devour me and there was nothing I would do to stop him. I couldn't flutter free or escape the trance he had over me.

Gretchen De La O

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#95. One of my Miss America judges called me a "God-clutcher" way back when because I spoke about my faith being an important part of my life during my interview.

Gretchen Carlson

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#96. James 5:7b-8. 'See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near.

Gretchen Fields

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#97. Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Gretchen Rubin

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#98. Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn't always look productive.

Gretchen Rubin

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#99. I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.

Gretchen Wilson

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#100. Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

Gretchen Rubin

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