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• If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Cute, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Mar 22, 2012

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• Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

  David McCullough

  Book, Rewards, Infinite

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 20, 2012

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• Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

  Daniel Pennac

  Reading, Loving Life, Lifetime

  "Why I’ll Read 20 Books Before Bedtime" by Rachael Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2014.

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• Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Cat, Funny Cat

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• I was 16 when we made the first song. We've been touring for half a decade together and we've had quite a bit of time spent learning our craft. You improve as a song writer and as a musician over time.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Together, Firsts

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• After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Children, Educational, Play

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.69, Vintage

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• Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  Naveen Jain

  Real, Filling Up, Ideas

  "Dear Entrepreneur: Stop Dreaming And Launch That Business" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2011.

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• Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

  Richard Louv

  Powerful, Cost, Way

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• I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.

  Lawrence Lessig

  America, Views, Insane

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• time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

  Blessed, Long, Lost

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• Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

  Dean Acheson

  Business, Feet, Chinese

  Dean Acheson (1980). “Among friends: personal letters of Dean Acheson”, Dodd Mead

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• When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Awakening, Remember

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• The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Mean, Creative, Faces

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

  Ovid

  Agriculture, Fields, Cultivation

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• The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

  Vita Sackville-West

  True Life, Solitude, Impatience

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• Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they instinctively think of all the reasons why it won't. They sincerely believe that they are doing everyone a favor by reducing the amount of time spent on bad or foolish ideas. But what they really do is undermine the creativity that can be harvested from thinking free.

  Steven Sample

  Block, Believe, Creativity

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• Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Your Children, Our Children

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• Time spent with poets is never wasted.

  May Sarton

  Poet

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• Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Long

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.74, Moody Publishers

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• When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.

  Debi Mazar

  Fun, Effort, Design

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.

  Steve Goodier

  Lonely, People, Soul

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• Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Powerful, Simple

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

  Kate Fox

  Men, Differences, Littles

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• For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.

  Alan Alda

  Order, Forever, Heaven

  Alan Alda (2009). “Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself”, p.9, Random House

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