“A temptation is a decision that has not yet been made.”

“Think of excess fat as a collection of bad habits. Lose the fat-promoting habits, and you will lose the excess fat.”

“Your goal should be permanent, not rapid, weight loss. Losing even a half pound a week that doesn’t come back is better than losing four pounds that do.”

“What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch. Where others wrote, they talked. Where others waited, they acted. That early bird that got the worm must have been a Redbird.”

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“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.”

“A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.”