Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.