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

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

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.

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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I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

I think that's one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it's been really rough, is that we are all human beings first. And that it is more important for us to have civil dialogue. And you know what? I'm conservative, but I'm not mad about it.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

I don't want to endorse products that propagate fair skin at all.

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.

An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

I am not stroppy at all.

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.