The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

Even small positive shifts in thinking, create huge results if you are consistent in your efforts

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes.

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.