When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.

Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.

The Soul has never become impure not even for a second and if it had become impure then no one in this world would have been able to purify it.

And you, You can be meanAnd I, I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers, And that is a factYes we're lovers, And that is that

The price of leadership is criticism.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

[Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.

Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.