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Aleister Crowley:
“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”
Ben Hecht:
“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”
Thomas Jefferson:
“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
Update: Steve Pavlina has a bit to say on overcoming news addiction.
Productivity tip: throw away your TV and unsubscribe to the newspaper and weekly/monthly news magazines to keep your time and energy free for what’s really important in life.
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Ray Charles:
“With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a song and they say, “Oh, that must have happened to him,” that’s when you know you’re transmitting. It’s like being a good actor. You make people feel things, emotions, and whatnot. But you gotta start with yourself. You got to feel it yourself. If you don’t feel it, how do you expect someone else to?”
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Admiral James Stockdale, the highest ranking US military officer imprisoned in Vietnam. :
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
After his release, Stockdale became the first three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Brian Sulton-Smith, professor at the University of Pennsylvania:
“The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.”
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Karl Popper:
“The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.”
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