"Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern."

-- Charles Hummel

#Fire Quotes #Important Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.”
“Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.38, Transaction Publishers
“Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months”
“YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!”
“Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.”
“Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?”
“Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.”
“The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.”

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