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Actually I agree. A lot of weight problems don't have to do with self-control, so emphasizing that is just shaming. Would have liked to stress that th
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“The Personal Price of Procrastination WHAT WE MISS, WHAT WE LOSE, AND WHAT WE SUFFER”
― The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
― The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
“proximity to temptation is one of the deadliest determinants of procrastination.”
― The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
― The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
“Materialism and consumerism are merely emergent properties of our neurobiology given free rein in a free market.”
― The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
― The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
“Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.”
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“Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them.”
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“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
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“And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy and under the cover of night. All personal life rested on secrecy, and possibly it was partly on that account that civilised man was so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.”
― The Lady with the Little Dog
― The Lady with the Little Dog
