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If you want any business done for you, you should ask a busy man to do it

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Crusty Da Klown (Busy) - From a distance

Just as it is almost proverbial that, if you want any business done for you, you should ask a busy man to do it, and not a man of leisure, so it is the laborious scholar, who is working hard at languages, who picks up, nay, actually reads and studies more of other subjects than the rest of his fellows at school or college.

Reverend W. J. Kennedy, who was the Inspector of Schools for Lancashire and the Isle of Man in Britain, 1856

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… people who are less agreeable or more disagreeable tend to show higher creative achievement

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corinne glaziou - Happy August

„So it means that people who are less agreeable or more disagreeable tend to show higher creative achievement. […] Those who tend to challenge the status quo, challenge models, and don’t believe things just because other people have said them.”
Via: Optional Interview with Dr. Robert Bilder on Creativity and Problem Solving – What is Learning? | Coursera.

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Nicolae Steinhardt: Să nu citești doar lucruri legate de ortodoxie

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Nicolae Steinhardt afirma undeva (locația exactă îmi scapă, deși am căutat citatul): Să nu citești doar lucruri legate de ortodoxie, caută să ai un orizont mai deschis?

De ce? (explicația mea) Că vei citi fizică și astronomie doar chestii tari. Nu vei citi lucrurile slabe din fizică, vei citi titanii.

Când citești doar ortodoxie, ai timp și de lecturi proaste. Când citești domenii diferite, mergi pe lucruri „tari”. Esență dură.

La fel, dacă te uiți la filme, probabil nu vei căuta cele mai proaste filme. Dar dacă vezi doar filme, fără alte forme de artă, o să te uiți și la filme slabe.

De asemenea, poți avea gânduri mai rafinate.

Când te duci într-o țară străină, la reîntoarcere vezi lumea altfel.
Similar, când călătorești în alte domenii cu mintea ta, vezi lumea diferit ulterior.

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Never go back to a place where you have been happy

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J Swanstrom (Never enough time...) - Memory Without Emotion

“One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same eyes-even supposing that it should improbably have remained much the same. What you have had you have had. ‘The happy highways where I went, And shall not come again…’

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.” ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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