"Lists today are a way of trying..." - Quote by David Viscott
Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
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“Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.”
“Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.”
“Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.”
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“TV is the rat race of the century.”
“I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.”
“When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today.”
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“To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.”
“When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.”
“We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.”