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.

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.

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.

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%.

Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and you really work hard.

I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.

Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment.

The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.

Yeah, I guess everyone's had a reasonable amount of sex in their lives, some less than others.

A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.