Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up.

Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.

Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it's like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

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