A new habit is more likely to become ingrained if it’s easy, hence start with very small first steps and establish them.

Habits are regular practices or routines that define our whole life and the outcomes we achieve; therefore, they are the concept of self-improvement.

Small habit changes can produce outsized effects that improve or degrade quality of life.

Good habits yield positive results over the long term. Bad habits only bring short-term gain.

Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because I don’t want to change, but because I have the wrong system for change.

My habits are intertwined with my personal identity.

If I want to break a bad habit it is useful to use a commitment device, this is a preventative measure to limits future actions.

All my outcomes are a delayed reaction to my long-standing habits. If I want to change my outcomes, I need to change my habits.

How I talk about a new habit, even to myself, affects the implementation of the habit. With the right mindset and a clear vision “Why do I want to implement a new habit?”, it will become much easier and successful.

Environments can be designed to better support good habits or establish new habits.

Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if I’m willing to stick with them.

If I want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on my system instead.

The most effective way to change my habits is to focus not on what I want to achieve, but on who I wish to become.

The Four Laws of Behavior Change are a simple set of rules we can use to build better habits. They are 1. make it obvious 2. make it attractive 3. make it easy 4 make it satisfying

My environment is the invisible hand that shapes my behavior.

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Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

It was not that she expected anything expensive it was that he needed to give her something as much as he needed to eat when he was hungry.

I love myself and treat myself with kindness.

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and dont know whats next.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

I think if you take good care of your skin, you can achieve better make-up.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go.

I don't like violence.

As a member of Congress, I am part of a large group of elected officials who remain clear-eyed about the threat emanating from Tehran.

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.

We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.