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

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.

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.

Into the sky to win or die.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon realized there was a whole world out there. I was determined to spend my sophomore year in high school abroad. My school taught only Spanish, but I wanted to go to France, and I did.

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

And I'm proud of what I do as a professional, too.

While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.

Love is friendship set to music.

I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going to work out for five hours - wooh!' Like, that's not my thing. I'm from Texas. I like to eat carbs. I like to chill out with my friends and do anything but 150 push-ups and sit-ups.

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. Its about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.

At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

Thank God for little miracles, right?

Better not think too much. Relying more on the body it is more trustworthy.

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.