Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.