“Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.”

“Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. That is why goal setting is so vital to time management and developing focus.”

“Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing”

“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.”

“Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is "to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.”

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”