Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.