"The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent thatâ€™s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces."

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Source : "Trey Gowdy Still Tracking Down Benghazi Conspiracy Theories" by Kevin Drum, April 29, 2016.

Kevin Drum

#Exercise Quotes #Focus Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.”
“I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.”
“For openers, marriage is neither a matter of politics, nor is it a matter of social policy. Marriage is defined by the Lord Himself. It's the one institution that is ceremoniously performed by priesthood authority in the temple [and] transcends this world. It is of such profound importance... such a core doctrine of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, of the very purpose of the creation of this earth. One hardly can get past the first page of Genesis without seeing that very clearly.”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
“I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.”

Source : "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.
“The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way.”
“A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.”
“Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.”

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