“Whatever is produced in haste goes easily to waste.”
Saadi book Gulistan of Sa'di
Source: Gulistan (1258), Chapter 8, story 36
“Yesterday was an utter waste. An artist, of whatever stripe, has only so many days, to write or paint or dance or whatever, and each one wasted is that much that will never be accomplished.”
20 February 2005
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005
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