"Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, â€œHow long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?â€ I wonder how many of them do?"

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Source : "Three Cheers for Monotasking!" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 29, 2016.

Kevin Drum

#Smart Quotes #Long Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.”
“Getting old is not for sissies, kid.”
“The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.”
“Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2002). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
“I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.”
“A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.”
“It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.”
“Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart.”

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