When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.

Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.