find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

If today your company doesn’t know what its ONE Thing is, then the company’s ONE Thing is to find out.

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.

I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.

We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.