"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you had everything to do and you've done it."
"The greatest risk for Democrats is not that Obama will try to do too much, but that their terror of failure will lead them to waste an historic opportunity.....The Democrats have it in their grasp to master the great problems of public life if they can summon their collective nerve. The only thing they have to fear is fear itself."
Don't we all have too much to do? Surely, we deserve a break.
But as I sit here on a Saturday afternoon in my comfortable chair lounging around, Margaret Thatcher gets me up and about; and The New Republic reminds me that it may be time to dip into the recesses of my mind where ancient lofty goals linger, to resurrect some, to create new ones. To go for it, to get to work, to get it done.
very insightful--must make every minute count in your life
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