Top 40 Kelly Mcgonigal Quotes
#1. Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
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#2. Feeling burdened rather than uplifted by everyday duties is more a mindset than a measure of what is going on in your life.
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#3. One of the things I love about art, is that it can say number of things to people. I broad hope is that it would just open people's hearts and that they would experience love, and that that would experience God.
Michael Gungor
#4. The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.
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#5. I remember things the way they should have been.
Truman Capote
#6. Self-compassion-being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure-is associated with more motivation and better self-control.
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#7. We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today
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#8. The intelligent want self-control; children want candy. - RUMI
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#9. When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses - not your long-term goals - will guide your choices.
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#10. The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
D.H. Lawrence
#11. We think about our future selves like different people. We often idealize them, expecting our future selves to do what our present selves cannot manage.
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#13. We need to separate the real rewards that give our lives meaning from the false rewards that keep us distracted and addicted. Learning to make this distinction may be the best we can do.
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#14. Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.
Alice Waters
#15. Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
Jeff Hawkins
#16. I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.
Casey Affleck
#17. You can deal with stressful life experiences with strength from past ones.
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#18. When we're stressed, our brains persistently mis-predict what will make us happy.
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#19. An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing.
Catherine Lowell
#20. My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.
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#21. We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals. Instead, try on the point of view of a mentor or good friend who believes in you, wants the best for your, and will encourage you when you feel discouraged.
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#22. He loves productivity seminars because they make him feel so productive - never mind that nothing has been produced yet.)
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#23. Ask your brain to do math every day, and it gets better at math. Ask your brain to worry, and it gets better at worrying. Ask your brain to concentrate, and it gets better at concentrating. Not
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#24. Though our survival system doesn't always work to our advantage, it is a mistake to think we should conquer the primitive self completely.
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#25. Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.
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#26. Self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.
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#27. As Deb Lemire, president of the Association for Size Diversity and Health, says, If shame worked, there'd be no fat people.
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#28. There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.
Dolly Parton
#29. The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
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#30. [ ... ]while we all have the capacity to do harder things, we also have the desire to do exactly the opposite.
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#31. When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience,
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#32. The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. ( ... ) these three skills - self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most - are the foundation for self-control.
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#33. A short practice that you do every day is better than a long practice you keep putting off to tomorrow.
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#34. When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.
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#35. We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it.
Jay Woodman
#36. Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet ... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.
Octavio Paz
#37. Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.
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#38. I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!
Joe Jonas
#39. People come up with resolutions that don't reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.
Kelly McGonigal
#40. Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it's learning not to get so lost in them that you forget what your goal is. Don't worry if your focus isn't perfect when meditating. Just practice coming back to the breath, again and again.
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