“Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.”

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.

If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.

The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.

If you don’t do what Fear says…you’ll go ahead and speak up, you’ll sign up, you’ll buy, you’ll sell, you’ll jump.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

I enjoy doing an action scene. I’m not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.

You’ve got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.