Ash, Mary Kay -- Mary Kay, You Can Have it All, ch. 4 (1995)

Dave — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 16:07:55 +0000

Just as you drifted through an entire day without a plan and accomplished nothing, some people drift through their entire lives. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, and one month at a time. The months run into years and span a life. It happens so gradually that they are unaware of how their lives are slipping by them until it’s too late.

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001) American entrepreneur
Mary Kay, You Can Have it All, ch. 4 (1995)
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. -- Article (1858-02), “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1858-02), “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly
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Collected in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch. 4 (1858).

WIST Quotations

Ash, Mary Kay -- Mary Kay, You Can Have it All, ch. 4 (1995)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. -- Article (1858-02), “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly