Mischel Marshmallow Quotes & Sayings

Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority. — Richard Carlson

I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners - particularly when it's a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I'm biased. — Richelle Mead

One minute you're a happy fourteen-yearold - good at everything you try, popular, fun - the next you're a freak with wings — Cynthia Hand

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. — Theodore Roosevelt

Mischel refers to this skill as the "strategic allocation of attention," and he argues that it's the skill underlying self-control. Too often, we assume that willpower is about having strong moral fiber. But that's wrong. Willpower is really about properly directing the spotlight of attention, learning how to control that short list of thoughts in working memory. It's about realizing that if we're thinking about the marshmallow, we're going to eat it, which is why we need to look away. — John Brockman

Weak people cannot be sincere. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little Ice Age' that followed the medieval warm period and ended in the 19th century. — Steven F. Hayward