Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.

Sometimes life will give you ups and downs, but it's up to you to take them as they come.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where As You Like It is set. It was idyllic.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.