As far as I can, I make it a rule to plan for each day’s work—not merely to go through with the same routine of daily duties, but to get rid of the routine work as early in the day as possible, and then to enter upon some new or advance work.
In his autobiography, Washington describes his daily work habits, emphasizing planning and prioritizing new tasks over routine.
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In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
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