John Shaw Billings - There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplat

There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.

- John Shaw Billings

source: John Shaw Billings (1965). “Selected papers”

topic: Jobs, Islands, People