The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you're writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.
The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
I'm just shocked and thankful that I've gotten away with everything - experimenting here, trying at this, failing at that, being good in some things, not so good in others. It's kind of amazing that people are still sticking by me. When they come up to me in the street, I just want to write them all cheques.
Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
I want a regular pay cheque.