The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.

If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

The mind map will change your life.

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

The biggest mistake is trusting the wrong people who generally are also the dumbest.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

I'm not a scientist. I just read articles that are interesting and that capture my imagination, but I think there's a reason why there's so much faith placed in science.

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

For the most part, I'm extremely thankful for the life I have and what I get to do in the future.