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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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"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."
"Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day."
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"To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious."
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"The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."
"Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to....How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years, and hence feel collected together in one place, rather than strung out across projects which long ago evaporated into nothing one could hold or see."
"Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfAated but life-enhancing thoughts."
"Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains."
"What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation."
"The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel there is so much in us that has not got an expression in capitalism. You know, capitalism is a machine that recognizes outward financial, external achievement. And most of us carry all kinds of richness which we are unable to translate into that language."
"The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury."
"If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us."
"A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain."
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