"Edward Banfield's idea of the "long time horizon," says that more successful people look further into the future, judging their efforts and results in terms of decades, not weeks or even months. This is the power of thinking long."

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Tom Butler-Bowdon

#Successful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“â€¦Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.”
“The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, â€˜Here comes my food.!”
“Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.”
“For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.”

Source : Don Aslett (2004). “The Office Clutter Cure”, p.2, Adams Media
“We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean me and I mean you. It is the future of our country-yours and mine-which is at stake.”
“I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.”
“Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?”
“They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.”

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