What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.

If you want to know the secret of life, learn with enthusiasm and love with all of your heart.

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

Once you make something you think it's awesome, but it's only after you listen to it for a few weeks then you actually get a proper perspective on it.

I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

And gain is gain, however small.

I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening.

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.