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

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?

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.

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.

Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

I usually start my day when my kids wake up.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

I felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart.