Alan Chalmers book What Is This Thing Called Science?
Source: What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition; 1999), Chapter 16, Epilogue, p. 252.
“Goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.”
Source: https://jamesclear.com/goals-systems
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