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

Сила воли — навык, поддающийся тренировке и развитию.

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

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.

To your friends house the trip is never long.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

A man chooses, a slave obeys.

People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.

The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.

I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink

Stop talking. Start walking.

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.

Often, I'll ask clients who've found a great contracting relationship how they did so. The answer is almost always that they heard about them through a friend or colleague.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... I'd never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

It’s better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less.

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.