Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Daily Telegram #1172, Will Rogers Sees No Value In All The Time We Save (28 April 1930)
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Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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“save our emotional responses for real life.”
Ted Chiang (1967) American science fiction writer
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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variant: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Context: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
“A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted.”
Lance Armstrong book Every Second Counts
Source: Every Second Counts (2003), p. 21
Context: A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted.
You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”
Winston S. Churchill book My Early Life
My early life, 1874–1904 (1930), Churchill, Winston S., p. 45 (1996 Touchstone Edition), ISBN 0684823454
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
Mary Roach book Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Source: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void