“Learn, earn, return – these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek”

Love, honor, and negotiate.

A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations.

But leisure has little to do with one’s happiness.

Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, “I don’t know. But one thing I do know.

When I get there I am not going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Moses? Why weren’t you David?’ I am only going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Zuscha? Why weren’t you fully you?'”

One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

You will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people.

The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.