There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.

Change is the only evidence of life.

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this.

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.