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Pg. 236, “Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way. Professionals know what is important to them; amateurs get pulled off course by the urgencies of life.”

Pg. 189, “The French economist Frédéric Bastiat explained the problem clearly when he wrote, ‘It almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa.’”

“When you make a plan— to lose weight, write a book, or learn a language— you are actually making plans for your future self”

“… never been experienced quite as we have experience it.”

Pg. 560, “… And from all these pages upon pages, one thing I have learned is that there is just enough variety in human experience for every single person in a city the size of New York to feel assurance that their experience is unique. And this is a wonderful thing. Because to aspire? to fall in love? to stumble as we do and yet soldier on, at some level we must believe that what we are going through has…

Pg. 45, “Habits are, simply, reliable solutions to recurring problems in our environment.”

Pg. 47, “The process of building a habit can be divided into four simple steps: cue, craving, response, and reward.”

“Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe.”

“1. Decide the type of person you want to be. 2. Prove it to yourself with small wins.”