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"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
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"How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says."

"I'm telling you that responsibly applying time strategy and proactively leveraging your calendar is the dumb ol' secret to seeing your dreams come true."

"In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do."

"Complaining is a complete waste of one's energy. Those who complain the most accomplish the least."

"I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part."

"If you decide to focus on one thing at a time, instead of trying to solve everything at once, and just do that one thing, then you will feel a sudden decrease in stress."

"The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous."

"Bucketing your time or your tasks keeps you in the zone."

"Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically."

"Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to get things done."
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"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."

"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."

"The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder."

"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."

"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."

"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
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