Top 17 Walter Mischel Quotes
#1. If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think,
Walter Mischel
#2. My career as a model. I was due to go to University. It was a risk but it was the right decision.
Lucy Pinder
#3. 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.
Walter Mischel
#4. In fact, Bill Clinton's an excellent example of what he should be doing when he realizes that he's not invulnerable. He realized two things: his invulnerability was contextualized in two things: junk food, and he had a problem with certain kinds of women.
Walter Mischel
#5. There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
Samuel Johnson
#6. History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.
Pete Sessions
#7. 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
#8. James Watson summarizes the conclusion: A predisposition does not a predetermination make.
Walter Mischel
#9. I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises.
Walter Mischel
#10. If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.
Walter Mischel
#11. Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
Peter Kreeft
#12. The idiosyncrasies of human preferences seem to reflect a competition between the impetuous limbic grasshopper and the provident prefrontal ant within each of us.
Walter Mischel
#13. I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.
Walter Mischel
#14. I've had plenty of meaningless dates and pointless conversations. This woman was never pointless. She was everything.
Lauren Blakely
#15. Walter Mischel and his students exposed four-year-old children to a cruel dilemma. They were given a choice between a small reward (one Oreo), which they could have at any time, or a larger reward (two cookies) for which they had to wait 15 minutes under difficult conditions.
Daniel Kahneman
#16. Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.
Walter Mischel
#17. But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn't really change that much from one generation to another.
Nina Bawden
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