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  It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Adversity

  Jimmy Buffett (2002). “Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

  Isaac Asimov

  Time, Knowledge, Science

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• Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best.

  Christopher Ferguson

  Fire, Light, Space

  "'Light this fire one more time'". tucson.com. July 9, 2011.

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• Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'

  Robert Orben

  Spring, Way, April And Spring

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.153, Main Street Books

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• Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Wedding

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 01, 2014

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• There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working.

  Gina Rinehart

  Drinking, Jealous, Smoking

  "Gina Rinehart, World’s Richest Woman: Australia Is Too Expensive For Mining, Africans Will ‘Work For Less Than $2 Per Day’" by Damian Gill, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Busy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414

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• Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Believe, Passion

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rest In Peace, Children, Compassion

  "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

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• My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Holiday, Faces

  "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014.

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• Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Focus, Simplicity, Essentials

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.139, Modern Library

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• There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

  Dennis Prager

  Teaching, School, Character

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• If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

  Julia Cameron

  Forever, Yearning, Ifs

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• To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

  Richard Hugo

  Real, Nice, Writing

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• I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?

  Grace McCleen

  Sleep, Forever, Waking

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• The more time you spend in your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone will expand.

  Robin Sharma

  Comfort, Zone, Comfort Zone

  Robin Sharma (2010). “The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner circuitries of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Running, Believe, Peaceful

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• People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life Is Too Short, Nurse, Mountain

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• Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.

  Clint Eastwood

  Philosophy, Believe, Years

  "The Leo Tapes". Interview with Mark Harris, October 8, 2011.

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• Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

  Billy Joel

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. May 24, 2013.

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• We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Different, Way

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• A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!

  Nina Dobrev

  Sexy, Men, Mirrors

  "Nina Dobrev Is Our September Cover Girl!" by Laura Brounstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

  Patrick Stump

  Creativity, Keys, Inspire

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• Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.

  Richard Branson

  Frowning, Praise, Criticize

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