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"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: - _Instant Quotation Dictionary_, p. 119.
LIFE-SPEED
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,
or listened to rain slapping the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight,
or gazed at the sun fading into the night?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
Do you run through each day on the fly,
When you ask "How are you?", do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
with the next hundred chores running through your head?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow,
and in your haste not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die,
'cause you never had time to call and say "hi"?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere,
you miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
it's like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life is not a race, so take it slower,
hear the music before the song is over.
--Unknown
Source: Gary Heard
A VALUABLE ASSET
Author Unknown
To realize the value of ONE YEAR
Ask a student who has failed his final exam.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE DAY
Ask a daily wage laborer who has ten kids to feed.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet or . . .
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE
Ask a person who has missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND
Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Source: John M. Walls
Seen on a secretary's door:
* Do you want us to rush the rush job we're rushing now,
* or rush the rush job you want us to rush before we rush the rush job we're rushing now,
* or rush the rush job we were rushing before?
Source: David McBride, via the internet
Topics/Tags: Priorities; Work; Haste
A RIDDLE:
What is the longest and yet the shortest thing in the world,
The swiftest and yet the slowest,
The most divisible and the most extended,
The least valued and the most regretted,
Without which nothing can be done,
Which devours everything, however small,
And yet opens the life and spirit to every object, however great?
The answer? TIME.
Source: "Bits and Pieces," August 12, 1999.
Topics/Tags: Time; Opportunity; Haste
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