Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems.

The Shelly he knew had tried too hard to be sexy. This woman didn__ bother with make-up or fixing her hair. Yet she was damn near irresistible. For a second he imagined this babe chasing him around like Shelly had_ and letting her catch him. He__ have that sundress off her in no time.

All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately, Though they look like desires mental or sensory;- 39 -

Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so that they would stay strong, and that became a metaphor for his pruning at Apple. Instead of encouraging each group to let product lines proliferate based on marketing considerations, or permitting a thousand ideas to bloom, Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. " There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. " That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.

Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them.