recovering economist
You have to do the verb?
You don’t say.
The horror of it.
I would prefer to just be thought of as a genius, without, of course, ever having entertained a single thought.
And I wish this website would simply will itself more followers.
“Lots of people,” as the poet and artist Austin Kleon puts it, “want to be the noun without doing the verb.”
So, what should you do when you can’t do everything at once?
You do something.
You start.
It looks like Calvin Coolidge took this from Thomas Jefferson.
But who can blame him?
He might have gotten it from da Vinci, who probably got it from some Stoic philosopher.
Calvin Coolidge stated, “We can’t do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once!” Changing the world begins with a single act.
-Andy Andrews, The Seven Decisions