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“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“the killer question: “If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“What if society stopped telling us to buy more stuff and instead allowed us to create more space to breathe and think? What if society encouraged us to reject what has been accurately described as doing things we detest, to buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like?11”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“Sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“by abolishing any chance of being bored we have also lost the time we used to have to think and process.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“The way we see the problem, is the problem.”
― Stephen R. Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Personal Workbook 2 Books Bundle Collection By Stephen R. Covey With Gift Journal

“You can buy a person's hand, but you can not buy his heart.”
― Stephen R. Covey, 7 Habits of highly effective people personal workbook, how to have a good day, drive, life leverage 4 books collection set