INTENTIONAL Sunday: Plan for the week ahead.

Who you are is defined by the values you are willing to struggle for.

What determines your success isn’t “What do you want to enjoy?” The question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?”

People who enjoy the stresses and uncertainty of the starving artist lifestyle are ultimately the ones who live it and make it.

happiness requires struggle. The positive is the side effect of handling the negative. You can only avoid negative experiences for so long before they come roaring back to life.

The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.

99% of your thoughts are useless.

You have the ability to decide what you think. Or, you can choose NOT to think.

“How do I train myself to stop thinking useless thoughts?” Awareness. That’s where it starts. Every time you start drifting off, become aware of it. Just observe your brain. Step outside yourself and just observe the crazy shit you’re thinking about.

Set priorities on Sunday. I outline my weekly priorities and what I want to have accomplished by the following Sunday.

Map out work, play, fit, and push. Work: For each day, I outline my “Top 3,” meaning the three most important things I will have accomplished by the end of the day.

Play: Play enables me to self-express, reflect, and give my ideas space, which shows up positively in my work.

Fit: Movement keeps ideas moving forward so I aim to move my body for at least 30 minutes each day.

Push: Since learning and growth is important to me, I do something that scares me (almost) every day. This may be asking someone whom I deeply respect for an interview or writing about a topic that makes me feel vulnerable.

Batch your days. Batching actions into specific days and creating time for creativity.

CREATE on Monday/Wednesday/Friday: I create holes in my schedule for thinking and creating. On these days, I pay attention to my body and take breaks as needed.

CALLS and MEETINGS on Tuesday/Thursday: When possible, I avoid phone calls and meetings because I find them typically unproductive and often easy to solve via email.

SPONTANEOUS Saturday: With so much structure, I make room for spontaneity. On Saturday, I let go and go where the day takes me. Balancing structure with a day of free-spiritedness makes me feel whole.

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.

Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

Stunts I love.

There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

You simply dont realize how much pain the human spirit can endure.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!

In manufacturing, too much work is beyond repetitive - it is inhumane. The people doing this work aren't doing it because they want to - they are doing it because they have families to feed and clothe.

You can't control everything. Sometimes you just need to love and have faith that things will work out.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment as the night wind began to come down from the hills but it felt like a breath from another world.

People say you have to hit rock bottom and I can tell you almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars - the kind that dominate the night sky, but are lamentably both rare and short-lived. If biology's your thing, you can forget those guys.

As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.