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• A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

  "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.

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• I wish I had more time to visit schools.

  Cornelia Funke

  School, Wish

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• A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered.

  Stephanie Kaza

  Opportunity, Simple, Lifestyle

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• In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

  Harold S. Kushner

  Years, Office, Balance

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• The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Screws

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.195, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

  Steven Tyler

  Sex, Rocks, Two

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• Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things to confuse users, less risk of user errors, less description and documentation, and therefore simpler Help content. Removing any one feature automatically increases the usability of the remaining ones.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Mean, Errors, Simplicity

  Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger (2006). “Prioritizing Web Usability”, p.519, Pearson Education

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• There wouldn't be any way I could have jumped into Cup with the success I had without the truck series. I wish I had more time to spend there. There are so many things the truck teaches you about aerodynamics, the professional ranks of racing, and working with a professional team.

  Kurt Busch

  Team, Aerodynamics, Racing

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• Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

  Steve Martin

  Successful, Bad Relationship, People

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• Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the Holy Ghost can strengthen them a little more.

  Richard G. Scott

  Believe, People, Littles

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• The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

  Clint Eastwood

  Age, Littles, Able

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• When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I  wasted any more time on tobacco.”“After I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a one of you in.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Believe, Earth, Firsts

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• Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win.

  Usain Bolt

  Sleep, Feel Better, Winning

  "Usain Bolt: 'Legends have come before me, but this is my time'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

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• If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.

  F.B. Meyer

  Christian, Encouragement, Comfort

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• I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

  Edward Tufte

  Dog, Real, Book

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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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• On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

  Michael Badnarik

  War, Humor, Average

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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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• We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

  Daphne Koller

  Motivation, Inspiration, Creativity

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• There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

  George A. Sheehan

  Tired, Waiting, Events

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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  A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

  Mia Hamm

  Strength, Softball, Winner

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• The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

  Adam Gopnik

  Powerful, Mean, Giving

  "Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Fall, Fearless

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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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• I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

  Wendell Berry

  Grief, Believe, Forever

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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