Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

Lucky people create, notice and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives. Being in the right place at the right time is actually all about being in the right state of mind.

The concept of luck is very straightforward. Some people notice opportunities and others don't.

We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves.

Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.

Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will transform every reader into a super snooper.

Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.

I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.

Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we don't have that evidence.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.