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Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

Friends now fast sworn,_x000D__x000D_Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,_x000D__x000D_Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise_x000D__x000D_Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love,_x000D__x000D_Unseparable, shall within this hour,_x000D__x000D_On a dissension of a doit, break out_x000D__x000D_To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,_x000D__x000D_Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep_x000D__x000D_To take the one the other, by some chance,_x000D__x000D_Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends_x000D__x000D_And interjoin their issues.

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!

The autumn air is clear,_x000D__x000D_The autumn moon is bright._x000D__x000D_Fallen leaves gather and scatter,_x000D__x000D_The jackdaw perches and starts anew._x000D__x000D_We think of each other- when will we meet?_x000D__x000D_This hour, this night, my feelings are hard.

Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

Your least frequent, most extreme exertions will have the greatest influence on your fitness. The peak moments of a workout count far more than the amount of time you spend working out. This is why a series of 40-yard sprints at full speed benefits you more than half an hour of jogging. It's also the reason why lifting a weight heavy enough to make your heart pound and your muscles burn counts more than spending hours at the gym always in your comfort zone, never truly challenging your body. When a work-out becomes an unvarying, monotonous routine, it loses its effectiveness.

If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.

If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.