Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn’t feel so good today.

Rollo Romig
About This Quote

Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn’t feel so good today. When I was a child, my father often told me, "If you don't want to do something, you can always say no." He would say this with a big smile on his face and the hope that I would understand what he was saying. He wanted me to understand that it is possible to say no when I didn't feel like doing something.

By doing this, he hoped that I would learn that even if I didn't want to do something, there were things that needed doing. As an adult, it's easy for me not to want to do tasks that don't interest me or that aren't important or interesting. After all, if the task is difficult or boring then I'll just tell myself "I'm not going to do this," and then I'll relax and watch television.

However, if the task is difficult but necessary, then applying my father's advice gives me a new perspective on how much work needs to be done in the world. In this way, the task becomes less overwhelming and easier to accomplish.

Some Similar Quotes
  1. Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore. - Lady Gaga
  2. Work without love is slavery. - Mother Teresa
  3. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. - Coco Chanel
  4. Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea... - Ayn Rand
  5. I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am... - Audre Lorde
More Quotes By Rollo Romig
  1. Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn’t feel so good today.
Related Topics