The secret to maximizing your odds of success is to choose the right field of competiton.
Dopamine released not only when you experience pleasure, but also when you anticipate it.
The focus should always be on becoming that type of person, not getting a particular outcome.
Success is not a goal to reach or a final line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.
The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.
We’ll jump through a lot of hoops to avoid a little bit of immediate pain.
Both common sense and scientific evidence agree: reptition is a form of change.
The culture we live in determines which behaviors are attractive to us.
It is the anticipation of a reward – not the fulfillment of it – that gets us to take action.
I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
The more you read, the more you will love to read.
Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.
Habits change into character.
Genes do not determine your destiny; they determine your areas of opportunity.
To be productive, the cost of procrastination must be greater than the cost of action.
I can’t be perfect, but I can avoid a second lapse.
With our bad habits, the immediate outcome usually feels good, but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse.
Conversely, if an experience is not satisfying, we have little reason to repeat it.
Habits can be completed in a few seconds but continue to impact your behavior for minutes or hours afterward.