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61 " By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. —ROBERT FROST, American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes "
― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Workweek
62 " Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. —DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer Prize–winning American humorist "
63 " The New Rich ( NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. "
64 " At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat. "
65 " Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. "
66 " Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. —ALBERT EINSTEIN "
67 " Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. —DAVE BARRY "
68 " Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way. "
69 " Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic "
70 " Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through "
71 " Life is too short to be small. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI "
72 " Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you. "
73 " Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. "
74 " the key to not feeling rushed is remembering that lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take time to stop and smell the roses, or—in this case—to count the pea pods. "
75 " The best defense is a good offense. —DAN GABLE, Olympic gold medalist in wrestling and the most successful coach in history; personal record: 299–6–3, with 182 pins "
76 " Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —OSCAR WILDE, "
77 " How is it possible that all the people in the world need exactly 8 hours to accomplish their work? It isn’t. 9–5 is arbitrary. "
78 " Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. —NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, The Prince "
79 " Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want. "
80 " There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens. —YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia "