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Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
Speaker: John RuskinSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.
Speaker: William GibsonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.
...People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Speaker: Dave BarrySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Speaker: Robert J. SawyerSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Speaker: Herbert SimonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Love of bustle is not industry.
Speaker: SenecaSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive.Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What gets measured gets managed.
Speaker: Peter DruckerSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Speaker: William of OccamSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Speaker: Antoine de Saint-ExuperySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Speaker: Bruce LeeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
Speaker: Viktor FranklSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is too short to be small.
Speaker: Benjamin DisraeliSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!