«How to Live on 24 Hours a Day» kitabından alıntılar

But in the average case I should say: Confine your formal programme (super-programme, I mean) to six days a week. If you find yourself wishing to extend it, extend it, but only in proportion to your wish; and count the time extra as a windfall, not as regular income, so that you can return to a six-day programme without the sensation of being poorer, of being a backslider.

A failure or so, in itself, would not matter, if it did not incur a loss of self-esteem and of self-confidence