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“The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.”

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David Rock, a historian born in 1945, is renowned for his in-depth research on the history of medieval Europe. His work covers various aspects such as politics, society, and culture, and has had a profound impact on the academic community. more

“Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.”

Ifs Today Found Hours Technology Study Minutes Return Office Projects Tasks Originals Average Heavy Productivity Employee Distraction Distracted October Tolls Interruptions

Author:David Rock

“In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct.”

“I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability.”

Believe May Choices I Believe Depends Degrees Possession Vulnerability Crucial One Woman Another Woman

Book:Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States

Source: Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States

“I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.”

Men Trying Firsts Made Different Together Remember Spirituality House Felt Understanding Sides Records Heard Musician Incredibles Supreme Transition Remember When Coltrane

Author:Maurice White

“Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.”

Language Grace Uncouth

Book:Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

Source: Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

“Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.”

Ifs Knows Should Book Written Pops Dumb Settling Rough Publishers Coconuts Tarts Lotion Rough Drafts Snooki

Author:Geoffrey Hill

“Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.”

Doe Duty Toilets

Author:Geoffrey Hill

“I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Wish Difficult Democracy Goes On Art Is Add Democratic Obligation Versus Elitism

Author:Geoffrey Hill

“It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts Dying Instant Reborn

Author:Jonathan Weiner

“Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.”

Men Constitution Modest Stout

Author:Jonathan Weiner

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