"Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing."

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Source : DHH @dhh, twitter.com. August 29, 2013.

David Heinemeier Hansson

#Secret Quotes #Needs Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair.”

Source : "Conference at Edinburgh (1963)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 146, 1967.
“Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?”
“One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.”
“The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.”
“I really donâ€™t care what people think.”
“Beautyâ€”real everlasting beautyâ€”lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.”
“As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.”
“As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.”

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