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Jamil Lawrence
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Though the player knows his goal, he is not emotionally involved in achieving it and is therefore able to watch the results calmly and experience the process.
“Making it” in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who don’t make it, so you need other human beings to “fail” so that your life can have meaning.”
― A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
― A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Metabolism slows down 90 percent after 30 minutes of sitting.”
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
“Clock-time people use schedules that are defined by the hours of the day—the clock.23 They don’t move on from an activity merely because it feels like the “right” thing to do; rather, they move on because it’s 1:30 and that’s when they’re slated to move on.”
― Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life
― Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life
“Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“The second time Lord Brock has stood before this Council and demanded proof, and the second time no one has cared. What proof could there be, after all? A birthmark on Luthar’s arse in the shape of a crown? Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.”
― Last Argument of Kings
― Last Argument of Kings
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