Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
Unless you change direction, you will end up where you are headed.
There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.
Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.
A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.
The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they are assumed not to exist.
Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.
We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.