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A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re b...

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Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not-writing, as th...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system proces...

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Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that ...

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report wri...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

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Arthur SchopenhauerOn the Suffering of the World

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day w...

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One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be ...

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To love, we need to be sensitive to those around us, which is impossible if we are racing through li...

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Eknath EaswaranTake Your Time: How to Find Patience

...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put...

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Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that o...

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