Wayne Dyer Quotes

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly.

I think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.

For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

It's easier to solve the problem more quickly with directors than with writers.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.

Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.