"It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways."

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Source : Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.132, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Richard Koch

#Worry Quotes #Quality Quotes #Way Quotes

“You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.”
“You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust that they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing. And if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.”

Source : "Romney features wife, touts 'character' in new ad" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. December 21, 2011.
“All fish are not caught with flies”
“The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.”
“'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.”
“Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium.”
“When your feet start to hurt, place yourself in someone else's shoes.”
“With the single crossing over to pop radio, it's bringing out new people to the shows. We've got all our metal kids and punk kids who still love us. And then we've got the average joes coming out. We call our fans the 'mixed nuts' because it's all kinds of people out there.”

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