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

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.

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.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

If I had a horse of my own that I loved and fed and knew me, it would be amazing.

People are getting together specifically to color. It’s amazing.

It’s amazing that Bill Clinton could do one thing and have sex with his secretary and really get away with it and still be powerful.

It’s just like we do over here in America, right? It’s amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right?

I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, ‘Oh, you looked amazing – why didn’t you keep that?’ Not, ‘Oh my God – I can’t believe you wore that.’

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.