You are one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. I have a tip for you: if you work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on, and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.
Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.
When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.
That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.
If you're a public official, your life is an open book.
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
I think you can learn from pretty much everybody if you just open your eyes.
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
As an opener, your mindset has to be different. When you need to open in Tests, you might get out in the first 10 balls.
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Who needs soap operas now when we have social media timelines? Now you can get a similar drama fix by just paying attention to your friends and family members' Facebook pages.
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
