“It’s not enough to be industrious, so are the…
“It’s not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. The question is, what are you industrious about?” Henry David Thoreau
— from Time
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No one warns you that you can be enormously productive and still be burning your one irreplaceable resource on the wrong destination. As Thoreau asked, it is not enough merely to be industrious; so are the ants — the real question is what are you being industrious about? The trouble, almost always, is not a shortage of hours. — Time
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