In your days - things like this happen to you... You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake, and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired - but I don't want you to miss this."

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Through the aid of the sixth sense, you will be warned of impending dangers in time to avoid them, and notified of opportunities in time to embrace them.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

Spending too much time making "calls" instead of sales. A call is not an interview. An interview is not a sale.

It has many advantages, the main one being that it will often save from one to five years of time in reaching a chosen goal.

Many of us spend a lot of time sitting—too much time. We sit at our jobs, we sit at our computers, and we sit in our cars. To sit, in this book, means to sit in such a way that you enjoy sitting, to sit in a relaxed way, with your mind awake, calm, and clear. This is what we call sitting , and it takes some training and practice.

The function of a university is to teach a [person] how to drink tea, not because anything is important, but because it is usual to drink tea, or for that matter anything else under the sun. And whatever you do, every act, however small, can teach you everything, provided you see who is acting." ? Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton On Prayer

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Fourth of July picnic. And by the way, that picnic, like everything else in this land, is a model of efficiency: you drive at top speed, set up in a previously reserved space, spread out the baskets, bolt your food, kick the ball, and rush home to avoid the traffic. In Chile, a similar project would take three days.