Education for immediate effective consumption is more popular than ever, and nobody wants to think of the long term, or the intellectual tone of the nation.

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it — just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

Statt Stunden, Tage oder Jahre darauf zu verschwenden, den optimalen nächsten Schritt auszuklügeln, TUN Sie einfach was.

The trick is to start practicing as quickly as possible. Not thinking about practicing or worrying about practicing, but actually practicing.

Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy.

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build — the thing customers want and will pay for — as quickly as possible.

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

"That may be the reason he does so many things," she said, "so that he will not have to think."

The matter had to be settled immediately, without delaying another day, for at times he too felt an imperious need for instant solutions, which is all the weak are capable of, given their inability to sustain an effort of will.

The easy way to get into a person’s mind is to be first.

Zen emphasizes immediate action. When anything is to be done, it should be done immediately without thinking it over in advance.

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.