Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Obviously there's Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon and all these other outlets. Fake It So Real is now on Fandor, and I think people have actually seen it there, which is fine.