
“Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.”
One of the sayings of the venerable sages, called Ichigon Hödan.
Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness)
My Love. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.”
One of the sayings of the venerable sages, called Ichigon Hödan.
Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness)
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”
“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone”
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), The Wind Singer (Book 1), p. 35
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 233
Source: As quoted in Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages (1987) by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, p. 46. From The Importance of Living: "besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone" (p. 162), "the wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials" (p. 10).