Нравственные поблажки из разряда «я был хорош сегодня, значит могу себя немного побаловать» — не работают и приводят к ухудшению ситуации.

Сила воли — навык, поддающийся тренировке и развитию.

В случае наступления прогресса важно не начать гордиться собой, а вспомнить ради чего вы всё затеяли в первую очередь.

Сила воли заразна, как и заразные цели. В компании целеустремлённых людей проще ставить цели и достигать их.

Медитация позволяет сохранять контроль над собой.

Нужно поддерживать одинаковый уровень глюкозы в крови, чтобы мозг не переключался в состояние стресса.

Достаточно сделать 5-6 глубоких вдохов, чтобы поймать себя на желании совершить импульсивный поступок, который на самом деле совершать не нужно.

В случае срыва важно сразу начать всё заново, а не «заедать стресс», как делают люди, пытающиеся похудеть.

В критических ситуациях нужно остановится и спланировать свои действия.

Шимпанзе не может придумать себе оправдание «отложу начало пробежек на понедельник». Мы должны руководствоваться долгосрочной перспективой, принимая решения.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.

There is no fury like that against one who we fear may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion but have not really won.

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.

The script is just a blueprint.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

Whenever you want a radical shift, it rarely happens.

I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for.

In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut track repetitions and hill repeats that buckle your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.

I love soccer.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that theyre proud of.

I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!