Quotes About Resistance

Once you're wired for distraction, you crave it.

You're instead waging a David and Goliath battle against institutions that are both impossibly rich and intent on using this wealth to stop you from winning.

if you want to eliminate the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative. Not only will this preserve your ability to resist distraction and concentrate, but you might even fulfill Arnold Bennett's ambitious goal of experiencing, perhaps for the first time, what it means to live, and not just exist. Rule

Entertainment-focused websites designed to capture and hold your attention for as long as possible...provide a cognitive crutch to ensure you eliminate any chance of boredom. Such behavior is dangerous, as it weakens your mind's general ability to resist distraction, making #deepwork difficult later when you really want to concentrate.

The Principle of Least Resistance: In a business setting, without clear feedback on the impact of various behaviors to the bottom line, we will tend toward behaviors that are easiest in the moment.

It's natural, at first, to resist this idea, as it's undoubtedly easier to continue to allow the twin forces of internal whim and external requests to drive your schedule. But you must overcome this distrust of structure if you want to approach your true potential as someone who creates things that matter.

forcing you to resist distraction and return your attention repeatedly to a well-defined problem, it helps strengthen your distraction-resisting muscles,

To summarize, to succeed with deep work you must rewire your brain to be comfortable resisting distracting stimuli.

when you do have enough capital to successfully make a shift toward more control. It's at this point that you're most likely to encounter resistance from others in your life, as more control usually benefits only you.

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.

Declaring freedom from your smartphone is probably the most serious step you can take toward embracing the attention resistance. This follows because smartphones are the preferred Trojan horse of the digital attention economy.

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

People fight desires all day long.

Change isn't something most people enjoye, even if it's progressive change.

Change isn't something that most people enjoy, even if it's progressive change.

Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance.

But my heart rebelled.

will resist. Thus, unlike Frank Shorter or Alberto Salazar, Rodgers was never ranked among the top ten in the 5000 meters or

Sometimes people only do things that they really want to when circumstances force them to.

it is rare, though, that a great wrong is committed by one people against another without some among the perpetrators protesting the deed.

They try to force me to sculpt here. They don't succeed, so they make trouble for me.

lo molesta lo suficiente como para quejarse, pero no lo suficiente como para moverse.

With pencil, with chalk, with a brush I shall seek its form -- with my hands I shall model what tyranny deforms.

war, the human antithesis of art