Precommitment: Bezahle zuerst, konsumiere danach.

Wer frühzeitig korrigiert, hat einen Vorteil vor jenen, die lange am perfekten Setup basteln und vergebens darauf hoffen, dass ihr Plan aufgeht.

Focusing Illusion: Je stärker wir uns auf einen bestimmten Aspekt unseres Lebens konzentrieren, desto bedeutender schätzen wir den Einfluss dieses Aspekts auf unser ganzes Leben ein.

Easterling Paradox: Wenn die Grundbedürfnisse gestillt sind, führt zusätzlicher Wohlstand nicht zu zusätzlichem Glück.

Fuck-You-Money sind die Ersparnisse, die es Ihnen erlauben, Ihren Job jederzeit an den Nagel zu hängen, ohne in eine finanzielle Notsituation zu schlittern (z.B. die Ersparnis von einem Jahresgehalt).

Rechnen Sie damit, dass alles Wertvolle viel Zeit benötigt.

Möchten Sie lieber der beste Liebhaber der Welt sein, während Sie als der miserabelste gelten? Oder möchten Sie lieber der miserabelste Liebhaber sein, aber von aller Welt als der beste gelten?

Hire for attitude, train for skill.

Es ist wichtiger zu wissen, wohin wir gehen, als schnell irgendwo anzukommen.

In Selbstmitleid zu baden trägt nicht zur Überwindung des Unglücks bei.

Mache nichts für Geld, was du nicht auch für einen Zehntel des Betrags tun würdest.

Wenn Sie nach außen nicht vertreten, wovon Sie innerlich überzeugt sind, werden Sie nach und nach zur Marionette.

Das Beste, was man tun kann, sobald man merkt, dass man über irgendetwas nachgrübeln möchte, ist stets, dass man noch mehr Gedanken darauf verschwendet, als es der Instinkt verlangt, bis schließlich die krankhafte Anziehungskraft sich selbst verzehrt hat.

Der Wirkungsgrad des zweimaligen Lesens ist nicht der doppelte Wirkungsgrad, sondern viel mehr. Beispiel: 1x lesen = Behalten von 3% Inhalt; 2x lesen = Behalten von 30% Inhalt

Statt daran zu denken, was man alles noch nicht besitzt, ist es besser, sich zu überlegen, wie stark man die Dinge, die man besitzt, vermissen würde, wenn man sie nicht besäße.

Um zu wissen, was man zeichnen will, muss man anfangen zu zeichnen.

Das gute Leben finden Sie nicht durch Nachdenken.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

Today theres more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.

The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

A Jewish woman had 2 chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

Money talks. This is the thing, at the end of the day, I do what I have to do, and I'mma keep doing what I have to do.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment it doesnt mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone elses bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence, these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.

Don't be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.

I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.