
“And don't waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing goodthe worship.”
Source: The Alloy of Law
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 127
Context: A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate.
"Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world."
"To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters."
“And don't waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing goodthe worship.”
Source: The Alloy of Law
“What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 24
“If you want to master something, teach it. Teaching is a powerful tool for learning.”
“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
From Marthe Troly-Curtin's Phrynette Married (1912). Misattributed to Bertrand Russell due to an ambiguous entry in Laurence J. Peter's Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
Misattributed