One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Find people who will make you better.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

To create something you must be something.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.