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"The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking."
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"If you want to save time, invest in a team."

"Make sure you understand when best you are effective and then schedule your most important tasks within that time of the day."

"Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay."

"Don't let your phone calls, online chats, and other trivial activities manage you. You have to manage them because they don't have the dreams to fulfill; you have the dreams."

"The Time (T) and Energy (E) we invest in others, people will take it and carry it with them."

"Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year."

"Stress is not about carrying the burden yourself but, failure to set your priorities straight."

"The soul of dispatch is decision."

"To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious."

"Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals."
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"We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway."

"And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation."

"Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'"

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."

"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."

"But when our elected officials and our political campaign become entirely untethered to reason and facts and analysis, when it doesn't matter what's true and what's not, that makes it all but impossible for us to make good decisions on behalf of future generations. It threatens the values of respect and tolerance that we teach our children and that are the source of America's strength. It frays the habits of the heart that underpin any civilized society -- because how we operate is not just based on laws, it's based on habits and customs and restraint and respect."

"But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no."

"We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart."

"That is the one thing that makes me a Democrat, I suppose - this idea that our communal values, our sense of mutual responsibility and social solidarity, should express themselves not just in the church or the mosque or the synagogue; not just on the blocks where we live, in the places where we work, or within our own families; but also through our government."
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