[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.

Phenomenons only happen once in a lifetime.

Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.

I worried this course was going to be a waste of time. I was wrong. I made more progress in six hours than I've made in ten years.

The thing about death is it reminds you the story we are telling has finality.

Nashville bike store: and you'll get hours back in your day and get to work faster.

A good movie has memorable scenes, and so does a good life.

His conclusion was that the human body displayed physical evidence that we are not the same person we were when we were kids, or even a season before. He said we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

And I found myself wanting even better stories. And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story.