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“Finish the most important tasks and stop wasting time on irrelevant activities.”

“Make sure you understand when best you are effective and then schedule your most important tasks within that time of the day.”

“Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.”

“Determine when you are most effective and energized, then plan your tasks within that time.”

“No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work everything else goes to waste.”

“If you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.”

“Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per time.”

“The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller units of work.”

“To be effective in fulfilling your goals, you must break them down into little tasks and then spend most of your time working on the task in front of you, instead of being overwhelmed by the enormity of the big goal.”

“To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.”

“If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.”

“If you really want to be an effective time manager, you will have to learn to say no to other people and do so frequently.”

“Whatever you have chosen to be your priority, set a time to it and be focused on achieving it.”

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

“Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.”

“We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It's worth taking time to demistify it. [...] All the things an adolescent can be [...] are reduced to a three digit number. [...] We too can decide how to value our education instead of letting them value us.”

“But there is nothing magic about Darwinian fitness in the genetic sense. There is no law giving it priority as the fundamental quantity that is maximized. Fitness is just a way of talking about the survival of replicators, in this case genetic replicators. If another kind of entity arises, which answers to the definition of an active germ-line replicator, variants of the new replicator that work for their own survival will tend to become more numerous. To be consistent, we could invent a new kind of ‘individual fitness’, which measured the success of an individual in propagating his memes.”