Gretchen Rubin Quotes

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.

Gretchen Rubin

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I started as a print reporter.

Jim Lehrer

StartedReporterPrint

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

John Banville

TimeImaginationMemoryCreateReal

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

Jennifer Egan

TimeTrainingMeVoiceFeelMatter

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

Robert Rauschenberg

DoingYouTroubleRentSomething

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

John Lewis

MorningGreatWallsEnoughYouOut

Life is extremely complicated.

Robert Ludlum

LifeComplicatedExtremely

I'm a geek to the bone.

Jeff Dunham

BoneGeek

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

Tom Scholz

RememberI CanBuilderInventorEver

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

Roger Spottiswoode

YouLookClassBuySuitSomething

I think we need to stand with Israel.

Ron DeSantis

ThinkStandNeedIsraelI Think

I'm always so inspired by Jeff Eastin's writing.

Matt Bomer

WritingAlwaysInspiredJeff

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

Michael Johnson

SportsLosingMindWinningSmall

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