"Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Productive Quotes

“How do you know, Dan? You were so young when they died. Do you really remember them?" "Not in my mind," Dan replied, gazing at the passing scenery. "But everyplace else...”

Source : Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.
“I just can't read music.”
“A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.”
“You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.”
“Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of happiness are greater if one has multiple areas of interest and involvement. To juggle is to diminish the risk of depression, anxiety, and unhappiness.”

Source : Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone
“The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.”
“My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.”
“If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.”

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