Anything worth having requires hard work and hard work is not pleasant
Eliminate the emotional aspect of discipline
If something is important to your success it doesn’t matter how you feel about it, do it anyways
No one cares about what you do as much as you think they do
Pain is like pleasure, it’s just a feeling, it goes away
Good pain comes from pushing towards a goal, bad pain comes from avoiding challenges. You’re going to suffer either way so you might as well get better
The better you get, the more people want to be around you and the less you want to be around them
Don't build a life around a person, build a life and then bring a person in. You can accommodate and compromise after you develop your own life / value system
Music isn't just about the notes playing, it's about the notes not playing
You learn more about a relationship during 5 minutes of an argument than during 5 years of peace
Happiness is a rate of change, you have to be pushing towards something, resting on one's laurels is not gratifying
Don't talk about what you've done or what you're going to do, just do it
Big habit — washes your dishes as soon as you're done eating
Inertia is real, if you're not up you don't want to get up and if you're up you don't want to sit down — bodies are resistance to changes in acceleration