“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.”

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.

Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.

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.

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.

Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?

Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon.

I often went entire days without speaking – unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up:

In the days that followed I couldn’t stop thinking about him. It made me believe maybe there was such thing as love at first sight, if not between a girl and a boy, then at least between a girl and a horse.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas.

Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil.

Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.

Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.