The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.
Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.
Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize—they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right
Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom -- and the responsibility -- to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp, and the only option left is to get to work.
Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted. . . the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought
You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.
I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.
I am always working on the go. I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life. Fortunately I am able to work from my home and can answer my e-mails in the morning, play tennis or kitesurf in the afternoon to keep fit and have meetings or phone calls in between.