I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1000 things. —Steve Jobs The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. —Warren Buffett

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F.M. Alexander

"Take a simple idea and take it seriously." —Charlie Munger Doing a few sets of pushups each day is a simple idea. Saving at least 10% of your income is a simple idea. Sending Thank You notes is a simple idea. ...but most people don't take simple ideas seriously.

“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.” —Balthasar Gracian

“You can waste a year worrying about it, or you can get it over with now.” —Annie Dillard

“Criticizing others is easier than coming to know yourself.” —Bruce Lee

A mind that never replaces old beliefs is like a cup that never replaces old water—stale and no longer useful. “The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.” —Bruce Lee

“Trade expectation for appreciation, and the world changes instantly.” —Amish saying

“To a disciple who was forever complaining about others, the Master said, ‘If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.’” — Anthony de Mello

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” - Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"When your mind isn't where you want it to be, use your body to control your mind." — Dr. Andrew Huberman (@hubermanlab) Find our full conversation here: tim.blog/2021/07/06/and… pic.twitter.com/095R9DgeWT

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” — John Maynard Keynes

“Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.” — Arthur Koestler

“All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”—Albert Einstein What if we assessed kid’s learning by measuring whether it made them want to learn more?

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for *invention* rather than provide ready-made knowledge. —Seymour Papert

“Don’t try to blow out the sun for me baby, I’m not asking for what I know can’t be... All that I ask is a kiss a day, and I’ll give you love that’ll never go away” - Nina Simone

“I never want work to feel like a chore. My career is my purpose, and it should never feel like anything other than a happy place.” - @rihanna

"You can be whoever you want, even yourself"

"those who can... do, those who can't... talk about those who can." - denzel washington

“Never get between somebody and their paper. Taking a man’s livelihood away from him is akin to killing him.” - Dave Chappelle

Seek the truth, even when it is uncomfortable. It's important for leading a life of #faith. pic.twitter.com/L47uazvQgq

“An individual has not started living until they can rise above the narrow confines of their individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” #MLK

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends." - John 15:13

In the words of a man I consider to be one of the most influential of the past hundred years, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” - Winston Churchill #MemorialDay

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." - Matthew 5:9

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2

"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." - Romans 12:2

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. ~ Seneca Having clarity about your priorities creates focus, an ongoing decision that determines where a person devotes their limited thought & effort. Focus is a prerequisite for capturing all opportunity.