The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favour of holding meetings.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never.'

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Think of many things; do one.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

How wonderful it is, that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

My father wasn't around much. He made mistakes, but he had a very tough road.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I've come to terms with how screwed I am!

The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She'd drag people from the street.

Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am.

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.

I think abortion is a settled issue in New York.

I like bold colors but usually wear black.

I respect music, I do. I love it.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

The greatest benefit of synergy is born in the diversity of perspectives. The highest value can be found in these variances. Too much of the same does not create change in the same way.