Michele Pasin / Quotes

A daily fitness routine

Nevertheless, I persevered with the lessons, and I exercised every day. I worked my way up to twenty sets of thirty push-ups, with a minute rest between each set. I followed the push-ups every day with five hundred situps, a five-kilometre run, and a forty-minute swim in the sea. After almost three months of the routine, I was fit and strong.

Saved 5 November 2015

#days #months #rest

To trade smth for smth else

My curiosity ignited, I grabbed my Kindle and purchased the book. One minute later, it had finished downloading. For the rest of the day, I traded book…

The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization #book #reading #curiosity #rest #days

Bacteria as honorable foes that prune mankind

For the enemy/friends of man are his pruners. They prevent him from destroying himself by excess fertility, so that a person who dies of malaria or…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #malaria #penicillin #men #persons #rest

A year offline expands attention span

As my head uncluttered, my attention span expanded. In my first month or two, 10 pages of The Odyssey was a slog. Now I can read 100 pages in a sitting, or…

I’m Still Here: Back Online After A Year Without The Internet | The Verge #months #head

Nature Publishing Group (company description)

Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG…

Company Information : About Npg #database #months #publications #journals #access

Practice meditation

Practice daily meditation, in the morning, for 5-10 minutes for at least a month. Extend it to 10-15 minutes after a month. Notice when you are putting off…

How To Develop A Mind That Clings To Nothing : Zen Habits #months #minutes #meditation #morning

Greed and time scarcity

The problem isn’t that we have too little time — we all get the same amount of time each day and each week. It’s the exact right amount of time, because it’s…

Becoming A Master Of The Time-scarcity Demon : Zen Habits #time #weeks #experience #days #lack