"When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits."

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Source : Twitter post from Feb 09, 2012

T. Boone Pickens

#Hunting Quotes #Elephants Quotes #Rabbits Quotes

“When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.”
“Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.”
“He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably bracing herself for a rejection. At least he hoped she was. If she wasn't, she needed to do that straight away, because it was coming. God damn right it was coming.”
“True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.”
“Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.”
“Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars.”

Source : Song: Paint the Sky With Stars
“Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.”
“Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!”

Source : Hilary Putnam (1979). “Philosophical Papers: Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

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