Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

Sometimes, we must travel on the longest path to our sacred-destination.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.

You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked. She shook her head. He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart," he told her, and left.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.