you’ll be faced with two types of issues regarding your people. The first is having the right person in the wrong seat. The second is having the wrong person in the right seat. In order to gain traction, you’ll need to address both.

because an American can have a double-barreled last name but there is little practice for a triple-barreled one.

One might have a political or an economical policy; one could not have both at the same time.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

being the first mover doesn’t do you any good if someone else comes along and unseats you.

You can be for liberty, or you can be for banning books. You cannot be for both.

When more than one person is accountable, nobody is.

If one is actually a certain way and yet refuses to acknowledge it when called by that name, one is harmed not once but twice.

A: I like your apartment.
B: It's nice, but it's only big enough for one person – or two people who are very close.
A: You know two people who are very close?

But you don’t have to let your doubt into the cockpit! You can tolerate doubt as a backseat driver, but if you put doubt in the pilot’s seat, defeat is guaranteed. Remembering that you’ve been through difficulties before and have always survived to fight again shifts the conversation in your head. It will allow you to control and manage doubt, and keep you focused on taking each and every step necessary to achieve the task at hand.

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.

You can't live and write at the same time.

What if there are not only two nostrils, two eyes, two lobes, and so forth, but two psyches as well, and they are separately equipped? They go through life like Siamese twins inside one person. Everything that happens to one, happens to the other. If one gets married, the other is along for the ride. Otherwise, they are different. They can be just a little different, like identical twins, or they can be vastly different, like good and evil.” She stopped for a nearer example. “Or optimism and pessimism.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.