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Willpower in sentence

32 examples of Willpower in a sentence

Our willpower and imagination are a guiding light, enabling us to chart new paths and navigate through obstacles.
We know from the scientific research that willpower actually works like a muscle.
So tackling a tiny challenge without giving up, even one as absurd as snapping your fingers exactly 50 times or counting backwards from 100 by seven is actually a scientifically validated way to boost your willpower.
If you are regularly achieving the three-to-one positive emotion ratio, if you are never sitting still for more than an hour at a time, if you are reaching out to one person you care about every single day, if you are tackling tiny goals to boost your willpower, you will live 10 years longer than everyone else, and here's where that math I showed you earlier comes in.
Psychologists classify eaters into two groups, those who rely on their hunger and those who try to control their eating through willpower, like most dieters.
It takes willpower which you could be using to help your kids with their homework or to finish that important work project, and because willpower is limited, any strategy that relies on its consistent application is pretty much guaranteed to eventually fail you when your attention moves on to something else.
So however we do it ... whether it's sheer willpower, whether it's the flip of a card or whether it's a guilt trip from a German teenager, all of us, from time to time, need to sit down and try and play the unplayable piano.
Your savings behavior isn't a question of how smart you are or how much willpower you have.
That itself is its own form of Crazy Mode and self-medication for Crazy Mode, but stop working your willpower.
This is where people make decisions, where they develop willpower.
He was able to survive because he was able to generate that incredible willpower, he was able to use all the power of his mind to save himself.
I just could not change the channel, it's sheer stupidity sapped my willpower.
Mildred Pierce, who realize their ambitions by fierce determination and willpower.
I couldn't watch more than 30min but if you can sit through the whole thing then you have some good willpower
It is a very powerful film and is good support for anyone suffering from a eating disorder to give them the willpower to stop.
Basically, this just means that he's an older, fatter and sleazier male version of "Carrie" who can inflict stuff only by using his overdeveloped willpower.
Can poor Jesse over come the strong willpower of Freddy?
As it happened the supporting cast included the likes of Ellen Corby and Lucile Watson but there were albeit superfluous as Crawford could carry this one by sheer willpower and force of personality.
Izo takes all that away, casting humanity (even his) away for pure free untamed willpower.
But, unlike some new tools that guess – usually inaccurately – whose mail is important to me, Mailstrom does an excellent job not only of categorizing my mail, but also of helping me to get rid of it by applying my own intelligence – and willpower.
Individuals often lack willpower or access to healthy food or convenient exercise facilities, and are surrounded by poor examples that encourage instant gratification rather than effort and restraint.
Sarkozy’s energy, willpower, and activism are nothing short of spectacular.
Elect a strong leader with sufficient willpower, and those problems will conveniently melt away.
The Climate Change Debate’s Willpower FallacyCOPENHAGEN – There is a dangerous misperception that willpower and political agreement are the only missing ingredients needed to combat global warming.
Unlike other species, we seem to be endowed with willpower and intellect, hence we are capable of modifying the environment to buffer the effects of our decreasing fitness.
But all the evidence shows that relying on knowledge about obesity and willpower is not enough to offset the evolutionary instinct to overeat.
These are services that make health into a serious game where others can reinforce your willpower.
Climate neutrality can be achieved through political willpower, imaginative policies, new green technologies and clean-energy sources, and a multi-trillion-dollar shift in investment toward sustainable economic sectors and infrastructure.
But with sufficient White House willpower, the administration can see this through.
Fiscal sustainability requires an eventual rise in the consumption tax, and of course Japan should not wait until international investors start doubting its willpower.