...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop--and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it. You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else. That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be. And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. what's more, you aren't out of breath. That's important, too... (28-29)
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MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ... MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River... MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow... MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it... MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time... MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat... MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf... MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo... MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth... MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue. MICHAEL FROME I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be... MICHAEL HAYDEN For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha... MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut... MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a... MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ... MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon. MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th... MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split... MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q... MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others. MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea... MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili... MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba... MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:... MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco... MICHAEL SHERMER