Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.

The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now.

Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result of teachers' belief in their level of intelligence.

You become what you do most of the time.

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group.

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.