Edward Hallowell Quotes
I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.
Quotes to Explore
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon.
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Easy there," Zach said when I stumbled into him. "Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself.
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What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.
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Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.
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When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.
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Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.
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We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.
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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
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If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
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It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay.
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I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.
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If there was compromising material that had a shot at actually making Trump behave the way the Russians wanted him to, I would imagine it would be something financial - illegal, dirty dealings, or something with legal import.
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Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.
