Short cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones The Fellowship of the Ring

“If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.” Eat That Frog!

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Never Give In!

The measure of a person's disposition is this: ... how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions. Basically we all understand the highest. A child, the simplest person, and the wisest all understand the highest. ... But what makes the difference is whether we understand it at a distance—so that we do not act accordingly, or close at hand—so that we act accordingly and "cannot do otherwise." Works of Love