Tags / 15 quotes from 12 sources
#days
All Rise Or A Standing Ovation
The health benefits of a standing desk
I’m an active person. I usually workout an average of 1.4 hours per day, four to six days a week. However, I am not getting any younger. I’m always interested in steps I can take to maximize and maintain my health for as long as possible. In the past, I had read articles about…
Becoming A Master Of The Time-scarcity Demon : Zen Habits
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 all there is. It’s possible that we have too many things to do. But actually the real problem is that we want to do too…
Look Down Go Down
Importance of the psychology/motivation of the researcher
Our motivations matter personally because they are, quite literally, what keep us going. We are in this respect (I very much hope) no different from the American working men and women whom oral historian Studs Terkel interviewed in his wonderful book, Working: People talk about…
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Trick for partitioning the day
When we were working on our own startup, back in the 90s, I evolved another trick for partitioning the day. I used to program from dinner till about 3 am every day, because at night no one could interrupt me. Then I'd sleep till about 11 am, and come in and work until dinner on…
Open Knowledge
The evil necessary for the good
‘It is good that authors should be remunerated, and at least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil: but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Thanks shown rather than said
He went out without thanking me, as was usual with the people I treated at my hut. I knew that he would invite me to dinner at his house one day soon, or bring me a gift of fruit or special incense. The people showed thanks, rather than saying it, and I’d come to accept that.
Swept toward someone else's destiny
Abdullah and Tariq slipped effortlessly into a sleep that eluded me. I lay back, in a darkness that smelt of incense and beedie cigarettes and cheap kerosene, and I sifted the events of the last few days through a sieve of doubt and suspicion. So much more had happened during…
Indians know how to shout with their eyes
Long years after that day, the Afghan guerrillas I came to know as friends, on a mountain near the siege of Kandahar, talked for hours about Indian films and their favourite Bollywood movie stars. Indian actors are the greatest in the world, one of them said once, because…
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…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The absurdity of work life
In the meantime, the insurance and investment people have been interesting you in plans for Retirement—that really ultimate goal of being able to sit back and enjoy the fruits of all your labors. But when that day comes, your anxieties and exertions will have left you with a…
The Daily Routines Of 7 Famous Entrepreneurs And How To Design Your Own Master Routine (belle Beth Cooper)
Morning routine
The reason I like having a morning routine is that not only does it instill a sense of purpose, peace and ritual to my day, but it ensures that I’m getting certain things done every morning … namely, my goals.
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
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 writing for reading.
To Win Without Fighting
To Win Without Fighting (martial arts)
Miyamoto Musashi was the greatest swordsman in 17th Century Japan. He killed 25 men in duels by the time he was 21. One day, he was sleeping in a boat on a river, when a drunken samurai started terrorizing the passengers. Miyamoto calmly asked the drunk to be quiet so he could…
Unknown Source
Things that matter
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
Urban Dictionary: Excuse Me, While I Kiss The Sky
Kiss the sky
PURPLE HAZE lyrics, from the album 'Are You Experienced?' (released in the UK on May 12, 1967) Purple haze all in my brain Lately things don't seem the same Actin' funny but I don't know why 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky Purple haze all around Don't know if I'm comin' up or…