Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

Clinton masturbates in the sinks.

A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.

I always knew that 'Growing Pains' was not going to go on forever. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to enjoy every moment of this.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.

The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.