Quotation Collection

Every generation before us believed...that it had things figured out. We now know that every generation before us was wrong about a lot of it. Is it likely that you were born at the tipping point of history, in which humans know enough about reality to say we understand it? This is another case where humility is your friend. When you can release on your ego long enough to view your perceptions as incomplete or misleading, it gives you the freedom to imagine new and potentially more useful ways of looking at the world. Scott Adams

• science
• perception
• reason

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A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like. Vernon Howard

• contentment

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities. Stephen Covey

• priorities
• time management

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If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossible," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time. Timothy Ferriss

• rules