Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.
Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.
Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.
Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.
Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
I have so much music to release, but I'm meticulous. I'm like, "You've got to redo that part, redo that part. " And people are like, "Just forget that and go ahead with it. " But it's all about perfection, about trying to make it as good as you can.
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.
Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?