"Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts."

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Source : Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.39, Crown Business

Richard Koch

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“I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot.”
“The best way to tell somebody how to figure out how to relax the tongue is to just say, well, notice where it is when you aren't doing anything. That's the relaxed tongue. It's not about putting it somewhere. It's about letting it be where it wants to go.”

Source : "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.
“You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."”

Source : Source: www.neh.gov
“You can’t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them.”
“People aren't very good listeners, by nature ... Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.”

Source : "Inside Tomlin's Style: Humility, Words Matter for Steelers Coach". Interview with Jarrett Bell, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 31, 2009.
“Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.”
“Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.”
“Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.”

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