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Attaining personal goals
* Goals are great if you really want to make a dent in the cosmos, if you are interested in extraordinary achievement, or if you want to make a lot of money
* Goals are a potential source of tyranny if you don’t truly want to realize them, but you just think you ought to have them. Maybe if you don’t have a goal or goals shouting at you, you should wait until you do

Temperament is not destiny.

Everyone can achieve something significant. The key is not effort, but finding the right thing to achieve.

The 80/20 Principle treats time as a friend, not an enemy. Time gone is not time lost. Time will always come around again. This is why there are seven days in a week, twelve months in a year, why the seasons come around again. Insight and value are likely to come from placing ourselves in a comfortable, relaxed, and collaborative position toward time. It is our use of time, and not time itself, that is the enemy.

We cannot be certain to what height the human species may aspire in their advance toward perfection… We may therefore safely acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.

Keys to Project Management:
- Simplify the objective
- Impose an impossible time scale
- Plan before you act
- Design before you implement

The 80/20 Principle is most useful when we can identify all the forces beneath the surface so that we can stop the negative influences and give maximum power to the most productive forces

Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully.

“God plays dice with the universe. But they’re loaded dice. And the main objective is to find out by what rules they were loaded and how we can use them for our own ends.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”