All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.

Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.

Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks.

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

I'm not very good at sitting still.

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.

People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.

Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!

i just know no one is a friend like writing .

It was possible, I found, to both mourn a loss and yet be grateful it happened.

No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.

I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

Find the center of what you believe matters most to you in life ,and act on it today! The moment is now!