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“Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.”

Source: Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance

“Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.”

Hands Understanding Skills Equal Tasks Critics Destroying Pulling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.”

Ability Skills Tasks Complexes Critical Advancement

Author:Brian Tracy

“When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.”

Knows Feels Matter Challenges Balance Activity Skills Tasks Strikes Rhythm Performing Pulse Sync

Book:Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

Source: Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

“A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.”

Needs Shows Lying Wise Skills Conversation Tasks Polite

Book:The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

“How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?”

Ifs Long Planets Offers Skills Concerned Tasks

Author:Jackson Browne

“Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?”

Remember Christ Ability Talent Succeed Skills Capitalism Tasks Developing Being The Best Description Endeavor Testament New Testament Parables Skills And Abilities

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved.”

Trying Mind Humans Children Body School Remember Reading Language Walks Technology Written Objects Personality Skills Tasks Harder Species Wide Human Mind Arithmetic Knack Written Language

Author:Steven Pinker

“You are in the depths of despair because you locked in on something or someone that didn't belong to you. I've met many people who have lost everything, especially in these times. People who survive devastating loss have the ability to let go of what they were doing, how much they were earning, and what they feel they are entitled to right now. They may well return to their former status, but their immediate task is to assess their skills and show resilience moving forward.”

“I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.”

Thinking Way Real Remember Form Common Kindness Grace Skills Goodness Ordinary Tasks Inspired Simplicity Saint Routine Usual Reverence Obscurity Ordinary Life Peacefulness

Author:Thomas Merton

“We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.”

Firsts Believe Hands Seems Simple Existence Doubt Arms Skills Tasks Ultimate Disappear Gas Glances Calculations Refinement

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask