When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.
Interpretation
Focus on your work when it's time to work, and use your leisure time to relax and enjoy.
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a clear boundary between work and leisure. It suggests that to be productive and fulfilled, one should engage fully with their responsibilities during work hours, while also recognizing the necessity of restoring oneself through leisure activities that bring joy and relaxation.
In practice
In a team meeting, to encourage productivity, one might say this quote to remind colleagues to focus during work hours.
As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying to find evidence. It's what computer scientists in the old days used to call 'Fifo:' first in, first out. The first piece of information that gets in has a privileged position, even if it's misinformation.
What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.
That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.
There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and more productive at business, but I don't know of one that grounds any of these in the science.
There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.
Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
You can't afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
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