The most valuable and least replacable resource is time.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a system a mess.

No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

Let us learn to see the beauty of life. Let us learn to appreciate and forgive. This is when we will find peace everywhere.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility.

Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

Labor is no disgrace.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

I see God in a sunrise, not in repetitious ritual.