Akrasia Quotes & Sayings

You decide your own level of involvement. — Chuck Palahniuk

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman. — Tim McGraw

In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept ... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss ... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand. — R. O. Blechman

Akrasia [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France. — John Searle

I understood something else, too - that one kiss didn't change a thing. Anyone can give a kiss, after all; a kiss was how Judas Iscariot showed the Romans which one was Jesus. — Stephen King

We often suffer from akrasia, weakness of will. So we become good people the way we become good tennis players or violinists, through practice until the behaviour we aspire to becomes natural and instinctive. Being moral means acquiring the habits of the heart we call virtue. — Jonathan Sacks

I have a strong aversion to Twitter, and yet there is a social obligation that forces me to pop in and spy on celebrities now and then. I don't get Twitter. It's impossible to follow conversation threads, and it's too easy to spend hours and hours clicking on random names, and the next thing you know, you've become infatuated with Tweet photos from the Kardashians. — Jessica Park

TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'. — Jimmy Carr

Because love is a riddle, as is life itself. — Corban Addison

How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing? — Anthony Doerr