“In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.”

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let’s say you desire security.

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what’s the best use of our time right now?

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities.

You can do that: you send away to the Philippines, and they send you a wife. The only thing is, once you’re on their mailing list, they keep sending you a relative a month whether you want it or not.

It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they’re going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.

It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

Even if you’re just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.