“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to…
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door” Coco Chanel
— from Time
In the book
The hours you do not deliberately claim will be claimed for you, by other people's priorities, until you look up and the tank is low. There is also the slow waste of fighting the wrong battle: do not spend your hours beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. And there is the deepest distortion of all, the one our minds are built for — we discount the future far too steeply, treating the years to come as if they belonged to someone else, when the discipline that saves a life is exactly the reverse: push the easy temptation in front of you away in time, and pull the distant consequence close enough to feel it now. — Time