Thursday, July 02, 2009

Doing something well

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
-- Robert Byrne

I lean more towards the old adage: if a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well.

2 comments:

  1. But not everything that must be done is worth doing.

    Sigh... I thought the story of my life would be a little longer than that.

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  2. I'd like to know the context of that quote. He must have been joking. Sort of like how most people figure that Samuel Johnson was not likely serious when he said that only a blockhead wrote for any reason other than money.

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