Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing

Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.

People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

Design your site so it looks professional

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

When we hold onto worry, regret, and anger, peace of mind, strength of body, and freedom of spirit eludes us.

I don't want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?

My dad was just the king of finding these little spots for us to stay that we should never have been staying at.

Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.

Whatever you believe, you become.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.

I personally love working out, but I always try to switch it up. I do a few different things, like SoulCycle, SLT for Pilates, yoga.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome.