Al Scates Quotes & Sayings

In an age of network tools, in other words, knowledge workers increasingly replace deep work with the shallow alternative - constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction. — Cal Newport

I don't know where you're going but do you got room for one more troubled soul? — Fall Out Boy

Carpe omnia," I say. Not carpe diem. Not Seize the Day. No, this says Seize Everything. I'll — Maria Dahvana Headley

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree. — Samuel Rutherford

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life. — Ricky Williams

I am so 100 percent Swedish ... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that. — Ingmar Bergman

Knowing that Draco's hopeful face had probably been drilled into him by months of practice did not make it any less effective, Harry observed. Actually it did make it less effective, but unfortunately not ineffective. The same could be said of Draco's clever use of reciprocation pressure for an unsolicited gift, a technique which Harry had read about in his social psychology books (one experiment had shown that an unconditional gift of $5 was twice as effective as a conditional offer of $50 in getting people to fill out surveys). Draco had made an unsolicited gift of a confidence, and now invited Harry to offer a confidence in return ... and the thing was, Harry did feel pressured. Refusal, Harry was certain, would be met with a look of sad disappointment, and maybe a small amount of contempt indicating that Harry had lost points. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. — Mikhail Gorbachev

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. — David Byrne

Do not marry the enemy of your excitement. — Nathaniel Branden

Really try to find a job where it's fun to get up and get out the door, no matter what time. — Martha Stewart

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. — Mahatma Gandhi

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi