Have 3-4 motivators for a goal

Measurement = Motivation

Make it competitive

“Take 5” Go 5 consecutive days for momentum

Avoid white carbohydrates -bread -cereal -rice (includes brown rice) -pasta -potato -tortilla -fried food

4 hours between meals

Take one day off and eat whatever you want, as much as you want

Eat Protein, Eggs, Beef, Chicken, Fish, Pork, Lentils, Beans, Vegetables, Legumes

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.

Knowing whats right doesnt mean much unless you do whats right.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.

An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.