“Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.”— Charles Duhigg, amazon.com
“Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.”— Charles Duhigg, amazon.com
“You don’t control the outcomes of your life. You don’t control how other people will respond to you. You don’t control your health. You don’t control how much money you make. Principles control these things.”— Benjamin Hardy, soulanatomy.org
“If you consistently put unhealthy foods in your body, your body will become unhealthy. You body is a natural system governed by principles. If you don’t pay the price to develop your mind with consistent learning, your mind will become dull and unclear. Your mind is a natural system governed by prin…”— Benjamin Hardy, soulanatomy.org
“You choose what you think about. You are in control of your behaviors, of how you respond to emotions. Believing you are not in control is also a choice.”— Brianna Wiest, twitter.com
“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.”— William James, amazon.com
“Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not.… Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.”— Charles Duhigg, amazon.com
“For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing.”— Meg Jay, amazon.com
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series…”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Identity capital is our collection of personal assets. It is the repertoire of individual resources that we assemble over time. These are the investments we make in ourselves, the things we do well enough, or long enough, that they become a part of who we are. Some identity capital goes on a résumé,…”— Meg Jay, amazon.com
“Confidence doesn't come from the inside out. It moves from the outside in. People feel less anxious--and more confident--on the inside when they can point to things they have done well on the outside. Fake confidence comes from stuffing our self-doubt. Empty confidence comes from parental platitudes…”— Meg Jay, amazon.com
“Feeling better doesn’t come from avoiding adulthood, it comes from investing in adulthood.”— Meg Jay, amazon.com
“The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Inspiriraitoanal, Universe
“Every day you play with the light of the universe.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.comTagged: Inspirational, Universe
“Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, amazon.com
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mocke…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”— Will Rogers, amazon.com
“If you want to see what your truly committed to, look at your results.”— Jennifer Ho-Dougatz, goodreads.com
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.”— Ashish Patel, amazon.com
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and email records and web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?”— Chip Heath, amazon.com
“Although you can download all the productivity apps in the world (and I have), no app will make you care about what you have to do like the Rule of 3. The rule is dead simple: 1. At the beginning of every day, mentally fast-forward to the end of the day, and ask yourself: When the day is over, what…”— Chris Bailey, amazon.com
“Imagination is the ability to produce new ideas without the need of time to stop and actually think about it. I'll produce elevator buttons - I bought that business from Jarod Kintz, who was only selling it, because he found a new, more profitable job – male prostitution (he’s selling his grandpa’s…”— Will Advise, amazon.com