Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.