Psychology

You can't control what happens to you, you can only control how you react to it. So, focusing on what's in your control and accepting for the time being what's beyond your control is a really useful therapeutic idea.

Our emotions are connected to our beliefs and opinions. Epictetus said what causes men suffering is not events, but their opinion about events. That piece of wisdom is very useful because it gives you some ability to have control over your emotions.

We all have philosophies which form the basis for our motivations and what we do with our days. Everyone has their own philosophy of life; every institution has a philosophy... but for most of us, those philosophies are unexamined and more or less automatic and instinctual.

Endurance stays with you across everything, if you do it one place, you can do it anywhere. You're able to sustain because you've already trained your brain to do that.

Illusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials

We have the ability to push much further than we think is possible, but the brain wants us to rest to allow the body to recover. With practice and training we can overcome almost any discomfort.

Illusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials

The way you eliminate fear is to approach your situation from every angle, almost as though it were a logic puzzle. It's also setting a goal but not being afraid to back away if you think that you're going to do irreversible damage on the way there.

Illusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials

Endurance is mind over body. It's about tapping into something within us that allows us to push further than we ever thought possible, especially at our weakest moments.

Illusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials

When you have the confidence that you really are an expert closer, you're a competent closer, the word no doesn't matter, because you know that there's going to be a certain number of no's and a certain number of yes's.

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

Every person is different, but every sale is the same. The question is, where does the person start out on the certainty continuum?

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

It makes you respect money more when it comes from something you create, rather than just trading back and forth with someone else's cash.

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

I don't think it's money that corrupts people, I really don't. I think it's the idea that when you make money without having a tangible creation attached to that money, it has no value.

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

The basic problem is that if you attempt to commit suicide with a gun, you typically succeed. It's also true that there is a more violent culture generally in the US. The US in general, has broader problems with crime, with social dysfunction, narcotics often, and all these work together with guns to create this epidemic.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist

I don't think I ever would have had the confidence in myself to even pick up the pen. I would have continued to believe that this wasn't something that could ever be real for me. That one small bit of encouragement had such a huge impact on my life. It made me realize how sometimes it really is the little stuff that's most important, and we never know how significant our encouragement can be in someone else's life.

NASA Astronaut & ISS Expedition Crew Member

It absolutely never failed to amaze and lure me in. In fact, if I was at the window during the work day, I had to set a timer on my watch, because I would just get immersed in the view. It's like a transcendence; I just started doing meditation, and it's a little like that where you can just completely separate yourself and just be sucked into it.

NASA Astronaut & ISS Expedition Crew Member

What motivates great entrepreneurs is fear of failure; and here's the thing – most entrepreneurs fail several times before they achieve success, and the more you fail, the more fear you have.

Shark Tank investor, businessman, and former Canadian political candidate

The real 'a-ha!' moment of my experience was realising that resilience is not a muscle we're born with, it's something we have to build and believe in over time. We should never ask ourselves how much resilience we have, but rather how much we can build.

COO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In