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.
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
The ancestor of every action is a thought. βRalph Waldo Emerson
"He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'"
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
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