For reaching influential people, I think that in-person is the least crowded and most effective way, because they have to trust the messenger before they will endorse the message.

If we let the storms pass and choose to reflect, we come out better than ever.

Though you can upgrade your brain domestically, traveling and relocating provides unique conditions that make progress much faster.

The first thing I would do for anyone who’s trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

Indiscriminate action is a form of laziness.

The end product of the shorter deadline is almost inevitably of equal or higher quality due to greater focus.

Large, uninterrupted block of time — 3-5 hours minimum — create the space needed to find and connect the dots. And one block per week isn’t enough.

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive.

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

“And so the Universe ended.” 

“Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)” 

“Ow! My brains!” 

“Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.” 

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?” 

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” 

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”

Life is wasted on the living.

“Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.” 

“Life is wasted on the living.” 

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” 

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” 

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” 

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on the outside!

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.