Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them…
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
In today’s wordsGuard against scattering your energy; keep working to focus it. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will regret every poorly judged expense.
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- Discipline is hard. A lack of discipline is harder.
- God made us creatures of habit, not so that life would be monotonous or mundane, but so that once certain processes were mastered on one level, we could more readily and easily move to the next level with the strength, courage and confidence that with God, all things are possible.
- Habits form character and character is destiny.
- But to slide, glide, drift, loll, dawdle, with no definite objective point in mind, is to arrive at the point of Nowhere and to have your craft lie hopelessly becalmed on Mud Flats.