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• Just imagine you're four years old, and someone makes the following proposal: If you'll wait until after he runs an errand, you can have two marshmallows for a treat. If you can't wait until then, you can have only one--but you can have it right now. It is a challenge sure to try the soul of any four-year-old, a microcosm of the eternal battle between impulse and restraint, id and ego, desire and self-control, gratification and delay... There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, led to one or another impulse to act.

  ~ Daniel Goleman quotes from Emotional Intelligence; p. 80-81

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• Stick with your own perception of yourself—living in your own world—and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

  ~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

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• Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

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• Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims—someone to protect or fix—to bolster their self-esteem.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

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• When you inhabit any of these three roles, you’re reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You’re always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.

  ~ David Emerald quotes from The Power of TED*

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• To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

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• You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

  ~ Tony Robbins quotes

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• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before -- that of doing as I willed.

  ~ Nikola Tesla quotes from Autobiography

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• Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the freedom multiplier.

  ~ Timothy Ferriss quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

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• Anxiety is caused by lack of control, organization, preparation, and action.

  ~ David Kekich quotes

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