“It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.”

Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.

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.

There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.

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.

The cooperation of NASCAR – or any other system, it turns out – persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.

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.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.

His statement was, “We’re going to the same place, except you’re taking a taxi, and I’m driving my own car.” That’s me and Ian MacKaye’s relationship. I love him, he’s great.

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can’t imagine a day without her!

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

I think that if you’re just a good person, you work hard, you say “yes,” and you are driven.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.

Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.