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• Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

  Robert MacNeil

  Commitment, Years, Engagement

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• The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work; not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.

  Sidney Abram Weltmer

  Love, Success, Money

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• Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Catholic, Soul, Honor

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• Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Time, Phones, Return

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• Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Investment

  John C. Maxwell (1995). “Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

  Chris Hadfield

  Life, Thinking, Optimism

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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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• Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.

  Gary Becker

  Training, Analysis, Cost

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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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• Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

  Bob Black

  Sake, Leisure, Hopeless

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Opportunity, Knitting, Waiting In Line

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• Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

  Rebecca West

  Gambling, Purpose, Flesh

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Toilets, Lost

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “Works”, p.368

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• I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

  Elton John

  Sadness, Hands

  Song: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

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• As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

  Vincent Piazza

  Opportunity, Luxury, Actors

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• Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Preparation

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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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• I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

  Susan Cain

  Country, Wall, Years

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.218, Broadway Books

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• Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Writing, Creativity

  "Time Lost and Found". www.sunset.com.

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• I guess for me, balance isn't about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It's about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity--are you being present and focused on whatever you're doing while you're doing it? I truly believe that's how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you're in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I'm giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don't feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Believe, Kids

  Jessica Alba (2013). “The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You”, p.181, Rodale

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• Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.

  Douglas Adams

  Fun, Wrestling, Technology

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.112, Del Rey

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• The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically, but psychologically. It is my feeling that only a small percentage of a mother's time is normally compensated for by child support, given what a woman could make adding these hours to workforce hours. It is why women who have never been married and never had children earn so much more in the workplace than women who have had children.

  Warren Farrell

  Mother, Children, Caring

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude. It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace. It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it takes to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling and a more loving state of being.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Gratitude, Silence, Grace

  Iyanla Vanzant (2000). “Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Matter, Remember

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.87, Broadway Books

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• No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you can hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you’re pootling about. [...] But what can you do about it? We don’t choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, Waste

  "Stuff I've been reading". www.believermag.com. July/August 2011.

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