So quotable: born on a Saturday

[flexagon]

Toledo on Facebook:

Hard work is everything, because most won't go beyond it. The truth is I am known in some places for my systematic, analytical approach to the madness, intelligent progressions, etc, but number one thing that makes me successful in what I do is that both me and my close students are outworking the rest of the scene. Realize it, people, when you come once more asking for my magic powder.

Someone else:

from my own limited experience- Giving effort and having discipline ARE gift

Someone else:

blah blah God-given blah

Toledo in response to both:

Working hard is not a gift, it's a value and an ideal. One can learn it, develop it, work at it, improve it and use it. Leave G out of it, i was born on a Saturday and it's his rest day.

I had to go and check. Damn it, I was born on a Wednesday, or I'd be using that quote for the rest of my life.

He also says "the long run is composed of short runs." Right! Off to the gym.

Comments

[randysmith]

I believe this, but I so don't have much self-discipline (or, I think the ability to acquire it ... oooh, shiny!), so it makes me sad to read :-J. The attitude I take is that, without self-discipline, I need to find another path that intelligently manages what I do have (insight&smarts, a certain tendency towards obsession, an urge to please, and an insatiable curiosity). On the external merits, I haven't done that badly. But it does make me sad, because something I think about what I could do if I managed all that *and* self-discipline. But you gotta use what you have.

And I too was born on a Wednesday, or I'd also be using that quote a lot :-}.

[islenskr.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I was born on a Sunday.

I really like the last thing you've listed: "The long run is composed of short runs." That makes me very happy indeed!

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Dammit, was ANYONE born on a Saturday? I got a Friday.