Improving Odds and Ends of Time
“It is really wonderful how much can be gained by improving odds and ends of time in keen, analytical observing, thinking, reading, studying. Think of the untold wealth locked up in the spare moments and long winter evenings of every life. It is possible to pick up an education in the odds and ends of time which most people carelessly throw away. If those who have been deprived of a college education would only make up their minds to get a substitute for it, they would be amazed to see what even the evenings of a few weeks devoted to college studies would accomplish. When a noted literary man was asked how he managed to accomplish so much with so little friction or apparent effort, he replied, ‘By organizing my time—to every hour its appointed task or duty, with no overlapping or infringements.’”