Gretchen Rubin Quotes

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

Gretchen Rubin

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PowerBestHabitFreeChooseWant

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Joel Osteen

FaithPeopleThinkEasyI Think

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Andre Maurois

AppreciateOthersUsWhoLikeThose

There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.

John Stossel

PowerMoneyGovernmentRealityYou

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

WarWorldBelieveStrategyBecause

I love dressing up. I like going out and buying some crazy stuff. I like stuff that's new, innovative and weird. I just pick out stuff that is unique and anything that I'm really diggin'. I don't really care if it's kind of out there. That's what I'm about. I like picking stuff that is really different.

Roshon Fegan

LoveCrazyCareWeirdUniqueNew

I'm actually just a terrible husband and a terrific exec producer. We just actually stay together for our careers. We look to the Clintons.

Jason Jones

TogetherHusbandLookProducerStay

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

Jaron Lanier

SupportDemocracyDesignToolsData

Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.

Jared Polis

ChildrenEntrepreneurCongressServe

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

Derek Jeter

BusinessAlwaysOverYearsInterest

One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

LearningI AmIdentityGeneration

My mom wouldn't let me dye my hair for the longest time.

Chloe Kim

TimeMeMomHairLongestDye

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

Christiane Amanpour

PassionChildrenNeverConviction

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