“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
Isaac Asimov book I, Robot
“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Source: I, Robot (1950)
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
To Carl Stumpf (1 January 1886)
1920s, The Letters of William James (1920)
Variant: Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Source: ISTO É Magazine, Edition. 1788.
Context: Santos FC player Narciso.
