As Plato said, every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. It's essential to constantly keep this in...

Not only should you be testing your project as you create it, you must most seriously test your creation as it begins to resemble a final product. So you know what you have - so you can improve it. So...

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made....

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant - how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

the only thing you can do with your life is give it away. You'll find yourself feeling purposeful if you can find a way to always be in the service of others.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Benjamin Franklin once observed, While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life. We repeat about 40 percent of our behavior almost daily, so our habits shape our existence, and our future. If we change our habits, we change our...

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more...

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.

Deliberate practice to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an...

Meddlers, both, we be, and always with the hope that our meddling will leave in our wake a more beautiful tapestry than that we first encountered.

Fear is the little death, daughter. It kills in tiny pieces.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Worry divides the mind. The biblical word for worry {merimnao} is a compound of two Greek words, merizo {"to divide"} and nous {"the mind"}. Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and...

It was, in part, a longing – common enough among the inventors of heroes – to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that...

Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger....

Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen.

It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

One might say that the ability to evaluate one's own ability is the most important skill of all. Without it, improvement is impossible.