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.

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.

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 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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.

Blessings fall on ground thats been plowed in praise.

Light-field photography is a transformational technology that needs a transformational product to introduce it. For the first time, we have a light-field camera that's going to be for everyone - not something in a huge room in a research facility.

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

He is rich who is content with the least for contentment is the wealth of nature.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.

I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.

Cell phones are not a sign of power theyre a sign of subservience.

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, 'Woo woo!' I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.

Expression is never helped by suppression.

Don't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.