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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley
Complete
Virtues
Worthless
Collection
Willpower
Absence
Talents
Most
Wholly
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Dan Millman
Success
People
Key
Fear
Overcome
Matter
Will
Doubt
Key To Success
Strive
Willpower
Feel
Apathy
Successful
Successful People
Applying
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
Johnny Weissmuller
Few
Willpower
Wins
Through
Exceptions
Underdog
Sheer
Always
Who
Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.
Jason Reynolds
Strength
Integrity
Courage
Fly
Nothing
Possess
Willpower
Ability
Superhuman
Having
Superpower
Superpowers
Most
Importantly
Truest
Jump
Since self-control is vital to reaching long-term goals, befriending people with willpower could be the secret to success. Whether you're tempted to skip that workout at the gym, or you're considering blowing this month's budget, spending time with a disciplined friend could boost your motivation to maintain healthy habits.
Amy Morin
Success
Time
You
People
Goals
Healthy
Secret
Spending
Month
Considering
Spending Time
Boost
Willpower
Vital
Tempted
Gym
Could
Habits
Maintain
Self-Control
Long-Term
Since
Budget
Reaching
Disciplined
Motivation
Friend
Blowing
Whether
Your
Skip
Workout
It's hard to tell if I've had writer's block because it seems to me that it's when nothing comes, but, you know, every day you stare at that computer screen, and I think, 'It's never going to happen today. How can I write three pages?' And the hours pass, and they haven't shown up, and then at the very end it always happens, so it's willpower.
Andrew Sean Greer
Today
Day
Me
You
Every Day
Three
Nothing
Every
Think
Tell
Willpower
Seems
Computer
Write
Writer
Computer Screen
Never
Had
Hours
Know
Because
Pass
Always
How
Block
End
Up
Very
Going
Screen
Happen
Happens
Then
Pages
Hard
Shown
Stare
Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.
Annalee Newitz
Behavior
Past
Biology
Dissertation
Complete
Our
Unlikely
Relevant
Evolution
Evolve
Thousand
Willpower
Thousand Years
About
Ten
Dating
Over
Contemporary
Sure
Continue
Years
Affects
Lot
Questions
Quite
Quite A Lot
Psychological
Certainly
Deeply
Early
Humans
I really believe that the more informed you are about the benefits of a healthy bite versus the chain reaction that you're going to put into effect in your body when you take that bite - you just suddenly don't want to make that choice for yourself anymore. It's beyond willpower at that point; it's become a desire to do something good for yourself.
Christie Brinkley
Good
You
Yourself
Benefits
Become
Healthy
Believe
Bite
Willpower
About
Something
More
Something Good
Point
Take
Put
Beyond
Reaction
Make
Effect
Versus
Going
Just
Want
Anymore
Informed
Really
Choice
Body
Your
Your Body
Chain
Suddenly
Desire
I think in order to accomplish anything in life, you have to visualize yourself there - accepting the award, hearing your song on the radio, whatever it is - or you lose the willpower and the drive.
Daya
Life
You
Yourself
Song
Drive
Lose
Whatever
Think
Willpower
Visualize
Accepting
Accomplish
Hearing
Order
Anything
Your
Radio
Award
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
Douglas Brinkley
Money
Willpower
New
Obvious
Answer
Woes
Painfully
Orleans
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
George A. Sheehan
Me
Change
Old
Power
Think
Addiction
Willpower
More
New
Involved
Likely
Am
Due
Than
Person
May
Want
Wanting
Preference
Old One
Now
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
Gordon Brown
Strength
Courage
Book
People
Made
Once
Willpower
Wrote
Courageous
Matched
Belief
Found
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
Best
Free
Power
Extraordinary
Willpower
Best Part
Habit
Point
Habits
Take
Allow
Part
Over
Get
Want
Form
Decide
Decision-Making
Then
Use
Choose
Started
Need
We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.
Marshall Goldsmith
Crazy
People
Strong
Achieve
Few
Predict
Heroic
Gauge
Our
Weak
Willpower
Structure
Absence
Through
Remarkable
Self-Control
Because
Mock
Accurately
Us
Help
Who
Need
It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort... to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.
Michael Moss
Attitude
Food
People
Matter
Research
Hooked
Willpower
Foods
Consumer
Part
Over
Inexpensive
Years
Effort
Get
Reporting
Just
Convenient
Poor
Manufacturers
Found
Conscious
Conscious Effort
Four
My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.
Penn Jillette
Me
Technology
Took
Willpower
Some
Civilization
Lot
Wanted
Reproduce
Really
Body
Socialization
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
Phil McGraw
Programming
Willpower
Weight
Weight Loss
Takes
Loss
Successful
With moderate physical training, you can control anything in your body. You don't have to be an athlete to do it, and this isn't just about people with disabilities - it's about everyone. You just have to have the willpower, the mindset, and the desire to want to better yourself.
RJ Mitte
You
Yourself
People
Training
Better
Control
Everyone
Mindset
Willpower
Athlete
Physical
About
Disabilities
Moderate
Just
Want
Anything
Body
Your
Your Body
Desire
Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you'll enjoy exponential results automatically.
Robin S. Sharma
You
Enjoy
Those
Willpower
More
Results
Install
Get
Automatically
Epic
Production
Your
Less
Exponential
Right
Routines
You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like willpower in that there's 'magical thinking' about it. You've got to be careful about 'magical thinking.'
Scott Adams
You
Passion
Thinking
Those
Willpower
Be Careful
About
Magical
Give
Like
Course
Got
Passionate
Dollars
Anybody
Billion
Billion Dollars
Things
Careful
What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.
Tom Heinsohn
You
Better
Other
Run
Willpower
Know
Learned
Greatest
Test
Going
Stamina
Team
Play
Player
Basketball
There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
Vicente Fox
Work
Dignity
Women
Men
Men And Women
Doubt
States
Willpower
No Doubt
Blacks
Doing
Mexican
Want
Capacity
Full
Even
United
United States
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
Will Self
Life
Freelance
Willpower
Plumber
Writer
Simply
Like
Period
She
Without
Any
Whether
Professional
Professional Writer
You must have the willpower to avoid what is bad. It's simple: If you indulge, you will develop a bulge.
Jeetendra
You
Simple
Will
Bad
Must
Willpower
Develop
Indulge
Avoid
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