Quotes About Self-control

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

Once a junky, always a junky. You can stop using junk, but you are never off after the first habit.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

The urge to check Twitter or refresh Reddit becomes a nervous twitch that shatters uninterrupted time into shards too small to support the presence necessary for an intentional life.

Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it's instead like a muscle that tires.

This strategy is classic digital minimalism. By removing your ability to access social media at any moment, you reduce its ability to become a crutch deployed to distract you from bigger voids in your life. At the same time, you're not necessarily abandoning these services. By allowing yourself access (albeit less convenient) through a web browser, you preserve your ability to use specific features that you identify as important to your life—but on your own terms.

You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it's instead like a muscle that tires.

You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. Your

The respected New Yorker staff writer George Packer captured this fear well in an essay about why he does not tweet: "Twitter is crack for media addicts. It scares me, not because I'm morally superior to it, but because I don't think I could handle it. I'm afraid I'd end up letting my son go hungry.

management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.

Point #2: Regardless of how you schedule your Internet blocks, you must keep the time outside these blocks absolutely free from Internet use.

A now voluminous line of inquiry, initiated in a series of pioneering papers also written by Roy Baumeister, has established the following important (and at the time, unexpected) truth about willpower: You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it.

You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it.

For example, you might institute a ban on any Internet use,

fighting desires—over time these distractions drained their finite pool of willpower until they could no longer resist. The same will happen to you, regardless of your intentions—unless, that is, you're smart about your habits.

Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it's instead like a muscle that tires. This is why the subjects in the Hofmann and Baumeister study had such a hard time fighting desires—over time these distractions drained their finite pool of willpower until they could no longer resist. The same will happen to you, regardless of your intentions—unless, that is, you're smart about your habits.

The subjects succeeded in resisting these particularly addictive distractions only around half the time.

People fight desires all day long.

Roy Baumeister ve onu takip eden di?er biliminsanlar?n?n çal??malar?n?n irade hakk?nda ortaya koydu?u fevkalade mühim gerçek ?u: ?rade, kullan?ld?kça tükenen k?s?tl? bir kaynakt?r.

most men consider their rationally selected actions are in fact idiosyncratic responses that have grown strong enough, through repeated use, to overpower other urges and reactions—that have won, in other words, the mental battle for survival.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.