The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.
When they don't know you, when you don't have credits and they're thinking, 'I don't know this French guy,' your first five minutes are trying to seduce them, trying to get them on your side. And it's not easy.
We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker.
The goal of listening to customers is not to please every one of them. It's to figure out which customer segments serve your needs - both short and long term.
Learning how to win comes with switching the onus of pressure away from yourselves and then seizing your moment.
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.
I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.
Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.
When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'
Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.
Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.
Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.
Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
