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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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So Much Of Our Time Is Spent

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

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I calculated the amount of time i spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time i had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. my father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

The problem is that every study i'm aware of, which is probably not that many, has indicated that a dollar spent in preparation and avoidance of natural disasters is worth $15 that is spent in relief. but there's no political payoff for preparation. so, who benefits? i mean, the governor or senator or the president? bill clinton at oklahoma city, his performance there helped him enormously. and there really hasn't been any regulation that would, in fact, interfere with environmental disaster.

I don't have a very routine life; the kids' activities, our nightly routines, and morning routines are about as routine as it gets. in the middle of it all - other than my morning coffee, toast, and trying to get 7-8 hours of sleep a night - each day is different.

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. the work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. to be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

There are a lot of people who say we need to cut the amount of money that's spent in politics. i'm not sure that i agree. but i am sure that if you were talking about cutting the amount of money spent in politics, the media would have a strong interest in opposing you, because they make an enormous amount of money from political advertisements.

Learn this great secret of life: what people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. to split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

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