c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made privy to one of the most arcane of their utterings. The time was ripe for that major epiphany, my initiation into the sacred knowledge—or should I say gnosis?—of that all-important, quintessentially Brutish slang term, the word that endless hours of scholastic education by renowned mentors, plus years of scrupulous scrutiny into scrofulous texts, had disappointingly failed to impart to me, leaving me with that deep sense of emptiness begotten by hemimathy; the time was finally ripe for me to be transported by the velvety feel of the unvoiced palato-alveolar fricative, the élan of the unpronounceable and masochistically hedonistic front open-rounded vowel, and, last but not least, the (admittedly short) ejaculatory quality of the voiced velar stop: all three of them combined together to form that miraculous lexical item, the word shag.
— Spiros Doikas, No Sex Please, We're Brutish!: The Exploits of a Greek Student in Britain
Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: “We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.
— Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife
Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest.
— Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife
An individual with genital character, according to Reich, was fully in contact with with his body, his drives, his environment- he possessed “orgastic potency,” the capacity to “surrender to the flow of energy in the orgasm without any inhibition…free of anxiety and unpleasure and unaccompanied by fantasies”; and while genital character alone would not assure enduring contentment, the individual at least would not be blocked or diverted by destructive or irrational emotion or by exaggerated respect for institutions that were not life-enhancing.
— Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife
I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.
— Björk
Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.
— Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
— John Paul II
What would you like to do with my neck?’ I asked. ‘Seduce me with your words. Feel free.
— James Lusarde, The Train of Arousal
Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my sexuality. I'm dirty and shameful. I have no right to my own physical boundaries.' That shapes their ideas about the world around them: 'No one will believe me. Telling the truth results in bad consequences. People can't be trusted.' It doesn't take long for children to being to act in accordance with these belief systems.For girls who have experienced incest, sexual abuse, or rape, the boundaries between love, sex, and pain become blurred. Secrets are normal, and shame is a constant.
— Rachel Lloyd, Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself
We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.
— Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
I smile at you, hinting at the pleasures ahead, and silently point to the zip at the back of my dress…
— James Lusarde, The Apartment of Sex
I hired you for your attitude, and so far I’m pretty happy with my decision. But I’m not sure I can work with you until I’ve fucked this attraction out of my system.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.
— N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.
— Hanne Blank, Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
It is not very romantic, but reality is a better basis for building a relationship than fantasizing about a soul mate or counting on a god to find you a partner.
— Darrel Ray, Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
She believed being so free with her sexuality was empowering, but I wouldn't say taking home a douchebag who would laugh about the encounter with his friend later is a step forward in the feminist movement."-Lily
— Teresa Lo, The Red Lantern Scandals
For Hitschmann and Bergler, 'frigidity' had a single criterion: 'absence of the vaginal orgasm.' The standard was unqualified and absolute. A woman who did not enjoy intercourse: frigid. Women who derived sexual pleasure from acts other than intecourse were frigid too. Nothing else mattered, only whether a woman had an orgasm because a man's penis was inside her vagina. Sexually agressive women were labeled 'frigid' because of the association between masculinity and aggressiveness. Womanhood that was not passive was not properly womanly. "Frigidity," as Jane Gerhardt points out, "thus became a label and a diagnosis that defined how much sexual desire a woman must have and in what kinds of sexual behavior she must engage to be 'healthy'.
— Hanne Blank, Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.
— Jess C. Scott
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.
— Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
...There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no.
— Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater.
— Émile Zola, Nana
I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front of the washing machine.
— Kristie LeVangie
What’s wrong with being naked?”--Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston
— Zeena Schreck, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic
Arousal begins within the mind, then seeps out where fantasy propels physicality.
— Kristie LeVangie
You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?
— C.S. Lewis
The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.
— Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
Male or female, what did it matter, really, when the body yearned?
— Kate Elliott, Cold Fire
Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not twoAphrodites, but one Aphrodite with a Janus face.
— E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey
We did not learn how to feel or experience our bodies, how to appreciate our own strengths, how to value or respect or understand the packages we came in. Instead, we learned how to look at them, to pair sexuality with desirability, to measure the worth of our bodies by their capacity to elicit admiration from others.
— Caroline Knapp
In her view, there were threeoptions for a woman. If you were beautiful, you got married. If youwere ugly, you became a nun. If you were beautiful and stupid, orugly and dishonorable, you became a whore.
— Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger
I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.
— Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.
— Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.
— Christopher Bram, The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes
It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.
— Gore Vidal, Julian
I'm a staunch monogamist. In practice, if not in theory. I can't help it. Do I acknowledge the oppressive, regressive nature of sexual exclusivity? Yes. Do I want that exclusivity very badly for myself? Also yes. There's probably some sort of way in which that's not a paradox. Maybe I believe in love.
— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Readers acquainted with the recent literature on human sexuality will be familiar with what we call the standard narrative of human sexual evolution, hereafter shortened to the standard narrative. It goes something like this:1. Boy Meets girl, 2. Boy and girl assess one and others mate value, from perspectives based upon their differing reproductive agendas/capacities. He looks for signs of youth, fertility, health, absence of previous sexual experience and likelihood of future sexual fidelity. In other words, his assessment is skewed toward finding a fertile, healthy young mate with many childbearing years ahead and no current children to drain his resources. She looks for signs of wealth (or at least prospects of future wealth), social status, physical health and likelihood that he will stick around to protect and provide for their children. Her guy must be willing and able to provide materially for her (especially during pregnancy and breastfeeding) and their children, known as "male parental investment". 3. Boy gets girl. Assuming they meet one and others criteria, they mate, forming a long term pair bond, "the fundamental condition of the human species" as famed author Desmond Morris put it. Once the pair bond is formed, she will be sensitive to indications that he is considering leaving, vigilant towards signs of infidelity involving intimacy with other women that would threaten her access to his resources and protection while keeping an eye out (around ovulation especially) for a quick fling with a man genetically superior to her husband. He will be sensitive to signs of her sexual infidelities which would reduce his all important paternity certainty while taking advantage of short term sexual opportunities with other women as his sperm are easily produced and plentiful. Researchers claim to have confirmed these basic patterns in studies conducted around the world over several decades. Their results seem to support the standard narrative of human sexual evolution, which appears to make a lot of sense, but they don't, and it doesn't.
— Cacilda Jethá, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Rick guided her to the outside balcony where they made love under the springtime mountain night. As Renee moaned across the valley below, Rick realized that he hadn’t closed the door and that her delightful calls probably echoed into the lobby below. There was a thought that he should close the door. But he didn’t.
— Rich Hoffman
There isn’t a dance that can compare to the gaiety, the timing and cohesiveness of hand maneuvers, the provoca-tive movements in unison of an upbeat salsa dance. The sweating, the writhing bodies, the facial expressions; the start of a moderate sensual beat climaxing in the middle to a crescendo and then ending with a slower consummation is like making love in its most exquisite form.
— Isabel  Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams
baptizing all containers with an orifice that appeals to their cock is the trivial pursuit of little boys" (23)(rbt: every "boy" i know has done this at least 15 times -- why?)
— Tony Duvert, Diary of an Innocent
Moreover, you couldn't get animal sex and tight leather and sex toys along with something warm and comforting and meaningful.
— Lacey Alexander, Lynda's Lace
I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Polly ended her lesson with the words she lived by: man is tender by nature, the rest is invented. Everyone applauded, even Bernice who was relieved that it was finally over.
— K. Ford K.
She [Bernice] didn’t like anything that had an adult theme, with only one exception, her collection of erotic female memorabilia. They were all antiques, fragments of other women’s sexuality that was somehow easier to deal with than her own.
— K. Ford K.
Bernice was fascinated by Trinket because she wore her sexuality as openly as a fragrant perfume. She was also amazed by the fact that Trinket found life so easy and satisfying.
— K. Ford K.
Let us dance as if life is a dance of our soul and spirit.
— Debasish Mridha
Invest to acquire knowledge to grow your wealth of wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
Invest in love to earn dividends of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is the strongest bond. Nothing can break it, not even death.
— Debasish Mridha
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
— Bruce Lee
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.
— Michael  Grant, Gone
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
— David    Allen
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.
— Francine Jay, Miss Minimalist: Inspiration to Downsize, Declutter, and Simplify
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
— Leo Babauta
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.
— David    Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Why do anything unless it is going to be great?
— Peter Block
When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
— David    Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
— Samuel Butler
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
— David    Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.
— David    Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
— Tom Peters
With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.
— Ogwo David Emenike
When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.
— Nabil Sabio Azadi
I want to know how good at life I can be in a place where there are no distractions.
— Nell Stevens, Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
I do believe that simplicity is a hallmark of maturity. But I do not believe that simplicity is necessarily a first step. Often, we must learn a depth of complexity before a beautiful simplicity blooms, whether in mind or matter.
— Kourosh Dini, Creating Flow with OmniFocus - Second Edition
Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.” ― John Cleese
— John Cleese
find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
— Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to work and bring about productivity.
— Sunday Adelaja
Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.
— Kenneth Atchity, A Writer's Time: Making the Time to Write
Life management is not about BUSYNESS; it is about PRODUCTIVENESS and EFFECTIVENESS – major on the major things in life, not the minors.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing
— Warren Bennis
Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.
— David    Allen
…there is rapidly developing a soil shortage on your planet. That is, you are running out of good soil in which to grow your food. This is because soil needs time to reconstitute itself, and your corporate farmers have no time. They want land that is producing, producing, producing. So the age-old practice of alternating growing fields from season to season is being abandoned or shortened. To make up for the loss of time, chemicals are being dumped into the land in order to render it fertile faster. Yet in this, as with all things, you cannot develop an artificial substitute for Mother Nature which comes even close to providing what She provides.
— Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2
By seeing what triggers procrastination, and then making a plan to flip those triggers, doing your taxes becomes attractive. If I found myself putting off doing my taxes, I might sit down and make a plan to changes those triggers. For example, if the trigg
— Chris Bailey, The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun.
— Gerry Geek, Ice Breakers for Project Managers: Jokes, Quotes, and Brainteasers
If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.
— Gerry Geek, Ice Breakers for Project Managers: Jokes, Quotes, and Brainteasers
Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.
— John Ortberg Jr., The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
...I conducted a number of experiments to get in touch with my future self. Here are my favorite 
— Chris Bailey, The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
Although you can download all the productivity apps in the world (and I have), no app will make you care about what you have to do like the Rule of 3. The rule is dead s
— Chris Bailey, The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind
— David    Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.
— Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!
— William Hazlitt
Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment occurs, and wondrous things emerge. You become highly productive. You make things up, and you make them happen.
— David    Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
The key to productive life is a complete care for the body, soul, spirit and mental well being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two—because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Spring is a season of fruitfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reflect on what you do in your day. You may have never realized how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time
— Vivek Naik, Get More Done Easily: Time Management Mindsets and Simple Exercise to Organize Your Day and be More Productive in 5 Days
Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?
— Chip Heath
Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.
— David    Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?
— David    Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Give yourself a deadline. Amazingly, many people work better under pressure. They are quickly moved to action when they know that they have a clock to beat!
— Kevin J.  Donaldson, 10 Secrets of the New Rich: How To Join The World's New Breed Of Millionaires
List down all your distractions, all your addictions, all your hang-ups, and all your toxic relationships. Then cut them out of your life so you can finally move forward.
— Kevin J. Donaldson
As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.
— Stewart Lee Beck
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
— Thomas A. Edison
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.
— Jerry     West
It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
— Henry David Thoreau
When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clearminds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity.
— Angela Lynne Craig, Pivot Leadership: Small Steps...Big Change
We don’t manage time, we manage activities within time
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
With a DO-CONFIRM checklist, he said, team members perform their jobs from memory and experience, often separately. But then they stop. They pause to run the checklist and confirm that everything that was supposed to be done was done. With a READ-DO checklist, on the other hand, people carry out the tasks as they check them off--it's more like a recipe.
— Atul Gawande
Either you run the day or the day runs you
— Alice Glynn
With gospel-centered productivity, peace comes first, not second. the mistake we often make is to make peace of mind the result of things we do rather than the source.
— Matt Perman
The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.//Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.
— Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait
—  but keep in mind miracles are usually accessed somewhere between the 11th hour and resurrection.
Authority—when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats—makes people shut down & productivity ceases.
— John Stoker, Overcoming Fake Talk: How to Hold Real Conversations That Create Respect, Build Relationships, and Get Results
So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage opposing winds. He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about.
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
I’m not leaving the plane that way,” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice—a third place that is neither “have to” or “want to.” That discovery freed me to move forward to make two other choices: I’m not going to be kicked out of this plane; and If I’m going to leave this plane, it will be under my own power. I’m going to maximize my chances of a safe exit. The change in my feelings at that moment was quite dramatic. Stress was replaced with purposeful action; a sense of victimhood was transformed into empowerment. There was no hesitation, no ambivalence.
— Neil A. Fiore, The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
Prior Planning Produces Positive Performance
— Salley Farquharson
Ask one question: Would a Millennial (anyone born between 1980 and 2000) look forward to working here?Try this exercise. Take a group of people into a large, open room with tackable wall surfaces or whiteboards. Give them large sheets of paper, sticky notes, markers, and tape. Ask them to create a concept for a work environment (don't say “office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating.
— Rex Miller Sr.
Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.
— Knut Hamsun
Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.
— Paul Axtell, Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations
The only way to do great work is to just do it!
— Wali Zahid
The mechanical clock was self-contained, and once horologists learned to drive it by means of a coiled spring rather than a falling weight, it could be miniaturized so as to be portable, whether in the household or on the person. It was this possibility of widespread private use that laid the basis for 'time discipline,' as against 'time obedience.' One can ... use public clocks to simon people for one purpose or another; but that is not punctuality. Punctuality comes from within, not from without. It is the mechanical clock that made possible, for better or worse, a civilization attentive to the passage of time, hence to productivity and performance.
— David S. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers!(TM)
— -Nanci McGraw
English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.
— Dean Wesley Smith
Traction equals satisfaction
— Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
Life is like paper; you can throw it away or, you can make something out of it.
— TheKatAttack
Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.
— Noel DeJesus
Today my goal is to be more productive than I was yesterday, and tomorrow more productive than today.
— Noel DeJesus
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
— Paul J. Meyer
Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.
— Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.
— Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.
I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.
— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The reason why employee relations have lost its sheen in aiding productivity, is to be searched for , within the doors of your corporate structure , i.e. your human resource department.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
Never allow doubt to roam unimpeded within you. When it arises acknowledge it immediately, and then exterminate it with extreme prejudice.
— Noel DeJesus
The downside of attending to the emotional life of groups is that it can swamp the ability to get anything done; a group can become more concerned with satisfying its members than with achieving its goals. Bion identified several ways that groups can slide into pure emotion - they can become "groups for pairing off," in which members are mainly interested in forming romantic couples or discussing those who form them; they can become dedicated to venerating something, continually praising the object of their affection (fan groups often have this characteristic, be they Harry Potter readers or followers of the Arsenal soccer team), or they can focus too much on real or perceived external threats. Bion trenchantly observed that because external enemies are such spurs to group solidarity, some groups will anoint paranoid leaders because such people are expert at identifying external threats, thus generating pleasurable group solidarity even when the threats aren't real.
— Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.
— David    Allen
To ‘kill time’ is a case of mistaken identity -- you have mistaken the victim for the perp.
— Oran Kangas
Well, reading Twitter’s a lot like staring at an ant farm,” Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. “Except without all the productivity.
— Wayne Gladstone, Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.
— Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing
— Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results.
— Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours -- that's another matter.
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Reality always wins.
— Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time--but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted.
— Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Your time is your life.
— Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
— Richard Koch, The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Time investment is the NEW Time Management.
— Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.
— Calvin Coolidge
Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.
— Jeff Davidson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done
Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we tell people that God will do this and that without teaching people how to do their best, we are doing a disservice to them.
— Sunday Adelaja
I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn’t admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love with—the way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion.
— Errol Anthony Smythe.
Churches are no more relevant because they haven’t balanced there teachings.
— Sunday Adelaja
The balance message is that churches are to teach people the miracle workers themselves.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to discover their territory and cultivate their land.
— Sunday Adelaja
See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
For is it not said That Girl Knows No Fear, and Dammit, Fran, She's Going To Get Herself Et, and This Is From Your Side Of The Family, Jonathan, No One In My Family Has Ever Hugged A Basilisk Before?
— Seanan McGuire, Snakes and Ladders
So you would kill Old Ireland?” Anna Livia said. “You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn’t be.
— Andrew M. Greeley, Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy
The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so they tried to do their best and give the best quality to God by giving the best quality to man.
— Sunday Adelaja
We call ourselves Protestants, but we have totally departed from the teachings of the early Protestants. Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Calvin would turn in their graves, if they hear the kind of teachings we are now feeding the people of God with.
— Sunday Adelaja
When you hear the right teaching about God your lives will be changed and then you can change the world.
— Paul Silway
When you hear the right teaching about God, your lives will be changed and then you can change the world.
— Paul Silway
If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.
— Plato.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?
— Pirkei Avot
People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by you.
— Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After
Love is not about the Dimples on the Cheeks but it is about the Heart that Beats
— Anamika Mishra
We sleep with dream, fantasy and hope, but we always get up with reality.
— Viorel Muha
A kiss is the sledgehammer that breaks the ice in you.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I wasn't in love with Aidan's wife but I am in love with the idea of caring about someone like that, so you’d alter the pattern of your life and become a better person. ... I want to find someone who will travel this path with me, so that we can discover hidden places together and make each other happy.
— Emily Colin, The Memory Thief
Love, comes to steal you like a thief in the night. It aims to take your most precious from you. It gags, you, binds you, cripples you to keep you from running away, rips off your skin making you raw, and holds you ransomed asking for so much wealth one is forced into imprisonment…isn’t is beautiful?
— Nicolenya Caltman
I’ll take stolen kisses and trysts in the cane fields for as long as I live over a life without you in it.
— Heather M. Orgeron, Boomerangers
All this time, William doesn’t move from my side, his hand surely and confidently glued to my waist like it belongs there, one piece of a puzzle that matches the other, making the picture complete.
— Anna B. Doe, Lost & Found
If love is EVERYTHING, you are missing out a whole spectrum of emotions and would want to end life if there is no love!
— Harrish Sairaman
Saying ‘I love you’ every day’ to your loved ones is not required, but if you say it, what will you lose?
— Harrish Sairaman
True love is to jump over your own shadow.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, 24 Days Until Christmas: 24 Christmas Poems
Love is the greatest nourishment of the soul. To be loved creates a strong back bone, joy, peace and soundness.
— Euginia Herlihy
Take away the pomp and circumstance, at the end of the day, only eternal things will be truly celebrated.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
The secret is love is a chaotic mess of every emotion we humans have given a name to.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
If love is what we search for.... Then why at the end of our search we only find pain?
— David Marcelo-Cabanas
You are at once both the quite and the confusion of my heart.
— Nico J. Genes
Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And every time they met their conversations sparked flames like the forest caught in a wild fire!
— Avijeet Das
When you love somebody you justify negative sides of this person, but if you are disappointed in your love yo lose every chance to do it
— Aysel yaqub
Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Nothing in the universe is impermeable to the flow of love.
— Victor Shamas, The Chanters Guide: Sacred Chanting as a Shamanic Practice
He looked in her eyes as if trying to tell her he loved her without words. She looked back at him as if to say, I know.
— David Soto Jr., Los Chocolates De Esperanza Diamanté
Love is the oxygen of the heart.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
In your eyes I can see my heart.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Love is to feel your breath.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
LOVE FILL the WORLD with WONDER.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Love is the jewel of mankind.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Love is patient, love is kind.
— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
If she remember right, people who had a God didn't seem to hold to drinking' an' beating' their women. With a little luck maybe she wouldn't have to put up with that anyway.
— Janette Oke, Love Comes Softly
Feel fee to be a usin' anythin' in the house, an' if there be anythin' thet ya be needin', make a list. I go to town most saturdays fer supplies, an' I can be a pickin' it up then. When ya feel more yerself like, ya might want to come along an' do yer own choosin'.
— Janette Oke, Love Comes Softly
People say that Paris is the city of love, but for Raia, New York deserves the title more. It's imposible not to fall in love with the city like it's almost impossible not to fall in love in the city
— Ika Natassa, The Architecture of Love
Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.We had found it.But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness
Don’t have the power to make someone happy…?’ Icriticized.‘I have the power, the desire… But No marriage, No girlfriend stuff… When I feel like doing something crazy, I can pay and get a girl in bed… No emotions, no argument, and no expectations, just I want to fuck and fulfil my desire, that’s it…! Darling, there is nothing like ‘LOVE’, everything revolves around the four lettered word – ‘FUCK’, understood…?’ he explained naughtily.
— Deepak Ranjan, Nights of the Velvet: A Conditional Dream
Just when you may think the world has given up on you, take a look at your self, and remember the 1 person you can always turn to.
— Kyleigh Gillham
I prefer you to be rainy than the rainbow , although the rain makes you sad but rainbow only make you happy for a while
— NOT A BOOK
Say it aloud! Let everyone hear... I want a crazy lover who isn't afraid of shouting my name from rooftops, or in busy streets, or during an argument. I want a crazy love where freedom sparks in, two bodies and souls are sewed together, and there is nothing artificial nor any kind of societal pressure. Is it hard to search or too much to ask for?
— Nikita Dudani
The best thing about a heartbreak, you start looking for happiness elsewhere. You realize like wild flowers, happiness can grow anywhere and everywhere. And, most importantly within you.Be wild, dear heart, happiness awaits you.
— Saru Singhal
Love is essential for a happy life.
— Eileen Anglin
I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.
— Robert J. Crane
You give me hope in my times of trial, joy in my saddest hours and love in all I do
— ZAKIYA AND MAJID
There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one's life.
— Aleksandra Layland, Ansgar: The Struggle of a People. The Triumph of the Heart.
Love is a diseases which makes the mind stop functioning and the heart beating faster.
— Amit Abraham
I believe in romance... in playfulness... in passion... in expressing feelings... in friendship... in all the ways love heals, nourishes, and transforms "you" and "me" into an "us".
— Steve Maraboli
You entered like a spark and lightened my candle called life. You will continue to burn until I melt don’t completely.
— Vignesh S.V., Adventures of Dollar Right
When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.
— Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
No matter how much time and space may come between us, I still feel you.
— Ken Poirot
Nothing is more excruciating than hopelessly longing for lost love.
— Ken Poirot
you said " you were insane", while all you did was being sane..!!
— Ridhdhesh Jivawala
Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not eny anyone or anything. Love never boasts and it's never proud. Love is not rude, it's not self serving, self absorbed or conceited. Love is no t easily provoked to anger. It doesn't hold grudges nor does it keep records of who was right and who was wrong. Love does not consult with evil instead it rejoices in the truth. Love always protects. Love always trust. Love always hopes. Love always perseveres. And love never fails.
— Apostle Paul