Gregory

“Ask any psychologist how much of a sense of past and future that part of your psyche has, the part that was storing the list you dumped: zero. It's all present tense in there. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you should do something, if you file it only in your short-term memory, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing it all the time. And that means that as soon as you've given yourself two things to do, and filed them only in your head, you've created instant and automatic stress and failure, because you can't do them both at the same time. If you're like most people, you've probably got some storage area at home—maybe a garage that you told yourself a while back (maybe even six years ago!) you ought to clean and organize. If so, there's a part of you that likely thinks you should've been cleaning your garage twenty-four hours a day for the past six years! No wonder people are so tired! And have you heard that little voice inside your own mental committee every time you walk by your garage? "Why are we walking by the garage?! Aren't we supposed to be cleaning it!?" Because you can't stand that whining, nagging part of yourself, you never even go in the garage anymore if you can help it.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“To właśnie socjaliści wierzą, iż nie ma takiego problemu, którego nie rozwiąże malutka podwyżka podatków.”
― Tomasz Agencki, Nie Karm Ręki Która Cię Kąsa

“Klęska hamuje w nas możność wyładowania się w czynie, skierowuje życie na tory czystego, że tak powiem "psychizmu". Niebezpieczeństwo: kto się zanadto "psychizmem" swym rozkoszuje, ten w końcu zakocha się w klęsce jako dawczyni rozkoszy.”
― Henryk Elzenberg, Kłopot z Istnieniem. Aforyzmy w Porządku Czasu

“Towarzysze, żeby gadaniem zagotować kubek wody, trzeba mówić po cichu przez dwa tysiące lat, a głośno — przez siedemdziesiąt pięć lat, a i to przy założeniu, że nie będzie żadnych strat ciepła. Sami widzicie, jaki jest pożytek z gadaniny!”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward