“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”

A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly—and, in many cases, automatically.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.

Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.

The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.

At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.

Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.

A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.

I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.

Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.

But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.

A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.

Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.

WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I’m used to doing.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

I am swept beneath your current – it pulls me in, and I don’t even try to swim.