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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think China represents huge opportunities for Europe.

I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.

Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

That's what has always been good about track. The goal is very clearly defined: Try to win. Get the gold medal. And I'm able to put my energy toward that.

I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

Cell phones these days keep getting thinner and smarter people the opposite.

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, neuroscientists have long used them for research. These nerve fibres have led to so many breakthroughs in the study of neurons that many scientists joke that the squid should receive a Nobel Prize.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is were going to get out of it.

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.