Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway.

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.