As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

I hate you, Edgar. I hate you with all my heart.

Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

Spirituality is connected with practicality.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?