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

Precommitment: Bezahle zuerst, konsumiere danach.

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.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that I'm completely used to it, and I've come to see it as a term of endearment.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Everything is a drug. Family art causes new shoes... Were all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

I've found that it's easier to stay in shape than it is to get into shape.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was.

In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.