"Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators."

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Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

John Perry

#Jobs Quotes #Real Quotes #Life And Death Quotes

“I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care.”
“What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.”
“A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.214, Penguin
“Everybody plays their part in this world and not all parts are the same. So I look at it like whatever I was put here to do that's what the outcome is.”
“The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?”
“which pisses her off and makes her scream and i look around my room and miss me.”

Source : Angela Johnson (2010). “The First Part Last”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
“When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.”

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