Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them.

Pretend your brain is a white board. Is it covered with to-do lists and “DO NOT ERASE”? Is there space for drawing and combining ideas?

If we don’t appropriately manage the ‘open loops’ in our life, our attention will get pulled.

Overwhelm comes from not clarifying what your intended outcome is, not deciding what the very next action is, and not reminding yourself of your intended outcome and action.

You need to transform all the ‘stuff’ you attract and accumulate into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information.

Getting things done requires defining what “done” means and what “doing” looks like.

Mastering your workflow involves capturing what has your attention, clarifying what it means, putting it where it belongs, reviewing it frequently and engaging with it.

If an action will take less than two minutes, it should be done at the moment it is defined.

Anxiety and guilt don’t come from having too much to do; it comes from breaking agreements with yourself.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the

I don't have to try to be outrageous. I am outrageous.

Being married has helped my racing.

Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

Remember how to breathe how to live please

Of course I remember everything I've ever worn.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Poker is meant to be enjoyed.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

I don't do anything unless I can give it 100%.

When we feel too drained to move forward God is right there with us ready to tenderly revive and restore us.