- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expend Quotes
Spending effort where it counts.
Each quote here is really a decision about where to expend limited energy, whether that means skipping old arguments to focus ahead or training harder than the tour itself demands.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
- Sleep
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sleep' is a project I've been thinking about for many years. It just seems like society has been moving more and more in a direction where we needed it. Our psychological space is being increasingly populated by data. And we expend an enormous amount of energy curating data.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think many people expend a tremendous amount of energy on self-loathing and self-flagellation as well as getting caught in a vicious cycle of dieting and gaining the weight back.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in the gym every day, Monday through Friday. And I train really hard to go out and do a tour. So that, basically, what I'm doing with my trainer is that I train harder in the gym than the amount of energy that I expend on the stage. So by the time I'm ready to go out on the road, doing a show is a whole lot easier.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're climbing something as challenging as Meru, it's all about efficiency. Even a decision as small as what to eat for dinner would expend energy you need for making other, more dramatic decisions.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expend a lot of energy in my 50-60 minutes of cardio and strength training every day.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.
- Conscious Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pay attention to how your thoughts change when you're faced with negative people. The more time you spend dreading, fretting, worrying, and rehashing, the less time you'll have to devote to more productive things. Make a conscious effort to reduce the amount of mental energy you expend on negative people.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020