One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

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

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

I work hard, but in spurts.

Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.