Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Energy flows where attention goes.
To get what you really want in life, you need a clear goal that has purpose and meaning behind it.
Once this is in place, you can focus your energy on the goal and become obsessive about it.
When you learn how to focus your energy, amazing things happen.
MermaidDiagram Comment.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.
My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.
There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.'(Source : RHLSTP #18 - @87min32s)
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.
Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
