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

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

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

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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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

I enjoyed practicing law.

When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors there are only so many flavors its how you combine them that sets you apart.

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.

When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment.

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.