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"The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done."
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"This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing."
"Your goal must be divided into smallest measurable and visible period of time- a day, so you know exactly what to do everyday."
"It must once again become a common knowledge to our people that it is only the wealth that we create that we can share."
"You need to pursue purpose and time to be productive."
"Every fragment of time that passes daily must be converted for it to be fully effective."
"To know what to do with time is to convert a day."
"People who understands how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom."
"A little time can help you to make a great impact, therefore you should never despise few minutes. Do it till it's done and done well!"
"When you are just living your mundane life just walking about or you are just sleeping and waking up and just chatting on the telephone and on social media , you are wasting life."
"Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late."
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"In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well."
"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
"We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us."
"It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided."
"We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane."
"Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate."
"There is something improbably about the silence in the [subway] carriage, considering how naturally gregarious we are as a species. Still, how much kinder it is for the commuters to pretend to be absorbed in other things, rather than revealing the extent to which they are covertly evaluating, judging, condemning and desiring each other. A few venture a glance here and there, as furtively as birds pecking grain. But only if the train crashed would anyone know for sure who else had been in the carriage, what small parts of the nation's economy had been innocuously seated across the aisle just before the impact: employees of hotels, government ministries, plastic-surgery clinics, fruit nurseries and greetings-card companies."
"Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities."
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