Quotes on Kick Ass

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm here to drive a race car and try to win a race.

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.