Идея №1. Если вы хотите действительно измениться, недостаточно изменить свои привычки и поведение, нужно развивать свой характер

Идея №2. Мы все смотрим на мир и судим о нем исходя из своих парадигм. Чтобы измениться, нужно понять свои парадигмы и согласовать их с универсальными принципами

Идея №3. Будьте проактивны и берите в руки контроль над своей жизнью

Идея №4. Всегда «Затачивайте пилу» — не останавливайтесь в личном развитии

Идея №5. Начинайте, представляя конечную цель

Идея №6. В нашем мире зачастую сложнее выбрать не между хорошим и плохим, а между хорошим и лучшим. Чтобы сделать правильный выбор, руководствуйтесь не «часами», а «компасом»

Идея №7. Уделяйте главное внимание главным вещам

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

It made me feel cooler in real life to know I could be The Rock's daughter.

I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

He lives long who lives well.

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

I'm starting to find my own style.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.

You can technically lose money during the playoffs if you don't raise your ticket prices.

I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.

Sometimes you don’t need to hear their excuses or what they have to say for themselves because their actions already spoke the truth.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

I'm an intellectual.

If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.