“The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.”
― The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
― The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
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“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.”
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“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
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“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
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