Motivational Status in English

“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.”

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got an fifty percent what people think you’ve got.”

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”

“I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, “People will LOVE the ninja version of that.””

“I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that.”

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

“Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.”

“Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”

“Beware the man of one book.”

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

“You’ve got to date a lot of Volkswagens before you get to your Porsche.”

“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, «Well, that’s not going to happen.»”