Es ist die Sicht auf die Welt, die man ändern kann. Mann kann nur die Perspektive ändern, jedoch nicht den Kreis, in dem wir stehen.

Durch Strategien und Zielsetzung lässt sich alles erreichen - man darf sich durch den Alltag nur nicht derart vereinnahmen lassen, so dass Ziele irgendwann nur noch zu nie erreichbaren Träumen werden.

Man gibt sich viel zu oft mit viel zu wenig zufrieden, anstatt den Ehrgeiz zu entwickeln, seine Ziele zu erreichen.

Dieses Buch hilft einem dabei, mit Kritik und Stress umzugehen und Ängste und Unzufriedenheit in positive (Erfolgs-) Energie umzuwandeln.

Man darf sich nicht von seinen Frustrationen übermannen lassen. Man darf im Leben stolpern oder hinfallen, doch das Aufstehen ist das, worum es geht.

Kontrolle bewahren und mit Ehrgeiz nach seinen Zielen greifen ist oft der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

100-prozentige Kontrolle über die Arbeit und Terminpläne gewinnen, mit Kritik und Stress umgehen, sich von Ängsten befreien, Unzufriedenheit in Erfolgsenergie umwandeln, mehr Geld verdienen, echte Anerkennung erhalten.

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.

A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.

My best feature would have to be my hair. That sounds so cliche - but my hair is like a separate entity.

When you hire a nanny, the question you ask yourself is, 'What's best for my precious child?' And do you really want someone who feels that your motive in life is to minimize the amount you spend on your child?

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

If you are insecure, then you can't be friends with anyone.

Some dangers are to be courted courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors and the most patient of teachers.

Being a biker is more than riding a bike you feel it in your heart and in your soul.

Life is an awful ugly place to not have a best friend.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason so I dont have any regrets.