“Getting organized just means you’ve glued handles onto the various stuff in your life — you’ll still need to pick it up and carry it around from time to time.”

“Before you get good, you need to first stop sucking.”

“Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a goddamn BlackBerry.”

“Task are like Ducks. We should look to shoot them not store them.(paraphrased from Twitter Meeting)”

“In talking with happy people, I found they've all figured out ways to focus on three things: Good Decisions, Good Relationships and Good Work.(paraphrased from the Inbox Zero Video)”

“Small Changes Stick.”

“When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.”