People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence.

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society