Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

I don't really know a lot about these 'anti-protest' laws. I'm only vaguely aware of them, but I don't have enough detailed knowledge about them to comment.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.