Do what is important, not what is urgent.

What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.