Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.

Multitasking is a lie.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

If every one of us spreads the message of love, compassion, kindness and forgiveness, peace will be there.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Life's a bowl of punch, go ahead and spike it!

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.