Quotations

The Pomodoro Technique® Daily/Weekly Process The Pomodoro Technique book is organised into six incremental goals. The objectives should be achieved in the order in which they are given here: 1. Find out how much effort an activity requires Ever wonder where all your time goes? Wonder no more: it’s all on the page. Your Pomodoro To-Do sheet

#7-9 Focus on Getting Better, Rather than Being Good — Think about your goals as opportunities to improve, rather than to prove yourself Be a Realistic Optimist — Visualize how you will make success happen by overcoming obstacles Don’t Tempt Fate — No one has willpower all the time, so don’t push your luck Roughly two years ago,

What Were Helen Keller’s First Words? On April 5, 1887, less than a month after her arrival in Tuscumbia, Anne sought to resolve the confusion her pupil was having between the nouns “mug” and “milk,” which Helen confused with the verb “drink.” Anne took Helen to the water pump outside and put Helen’s hand under

Doing less accomplishes more When your goals are so spread out into different areas of your life, you simply do not have enough time or energy to reach them all. You halfheartedly accomplish a few, but the momentum doesn’t pick up because you’re not making real progress. Radical reinvention shocks the system You change your

“The first thing you get is LEARNING. When you ask new questions, when you try new things, when you take constructive risks, you can’t help but learn. The American philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson put it this way, “All life is an experiment. The more experiments, the better.” The second benefit of constructive risk is SELF-ESTEEM.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the

“The most eloquent of American presidents, Lincoln seemed to have a comment – sagacious or humorous – on just about anything that mattered. This concise compendium offers his astute observations on a variety of subjects-from women to warfare. Quotations are arranged chronologically within such topics as family and friends, the law, politics and the presidency,

A hare was continually poking fun at a tortoise because of the slowness of his pace.  The tortoise tried not to be annoyed by the jeers of the hare, but one day in the presence of the other animals he was goaded into challenging the hare to a foot race. “Why, this is a joke,”

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