“Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist.”

“Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.”

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

“Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.”

“Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.”

“The better you get, the better you better get.”

“The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.”

“You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.”

“Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.”

“Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment occurs, and wondrous things emerge. You become highly productive. You make things up, and you make them happen.”

“At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?”