“… the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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American writer and lecturer 1888–1955

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