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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths."

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Ted Allen Chef
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"Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out."

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Theresa May Politician
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"What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis."

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
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"It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it."

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
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"Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend.""

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
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"There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is."

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Seth Musician
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"Desire is action. In the inner world, your desires bring about their own fulfillment, effortlessly. That inner world, and the exterior one, intersect and interweave. They only appear separate. In the physical world, time may have to elapse, or whatever. Conditions may have to change, or whatever, but the desire will bring about the proper results. The feeling of effortlessness is what is important."

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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
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"You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny."

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