“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”

— Brian Tracy

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

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American motivational speaker and writer 1944

Enid Blyton (1897–1968) author

Source: House at the Corner

“I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Letter (3 July 1956); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“We need to realise the depth of the problems we face. Unless we get on and do this thing, we will be punished for a very long time. There is a very real choice between getting Brexit done and the potential extinction of this great party.”

Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist

Tory leadership: Johnson warns party of risk of Brexit 'extinction' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48521389, BBC News, 5 June 2019
2010s, 2019

“The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“Not everyone understands this. But we (ROC government) have done what needed to be done, and we will keep doing so until the very end.”

Ma Ying-jeou (1950) Taiwanese politician, president of the Republic of China

Ma Ying-jeou (2013) cited in: " Time not right for political talks with China: Ma http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/10/26/2003575395" in Taipei Times, 26 October 2013.
Statement made in commenting his record-low approval rating and saying that he has no desire to change the cross-strait relations policies, 25 October 2013.
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“Still, all this time, I was only barely aware that my subconscious was putting together a layout of the house. It wasn't that I expected to need one, it's just how my mind works. I am, quite frankly, very good at it, and maybe that's where the real pleasure comes in — just the joy of doing something you do well. There are worse reasons for doing things; maybe there aren't any better ones.”

Steven Brust (1955) American fantasy and science fiction author

Kiera the Thief, in Orca (1996), Ch. 9

“All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.”

Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)

Address to the 75th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, Illinois (19 August 1974)
1970s

“One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

"Dress, or Who Makes the Fashions" in The Atlantic Monthly (1864).

“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”

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