Now my time is mostly taken up pursuing things that other people want me to pursue. Perhaps the greatest challenge now is to do those things that I think are important. I think that sloth or laziness must be one of them. If you are lazy enough, you won't even have the energy to try the other six. More seriously, all of us should aspire to a positive contribution to the various territories we occupy.
Procrastination is the deadly enemy of progress.
There were two professors that influenced me a great deal. The second was Ms. Potter, my section leader in English 100C who gave me a lifetime's worth of insights into the nuances of language. There is not a lot in common as between Lobster Cantonese and the structure of knowledge and understanding, but in both cases, there is something to learn about the range of human beings and the human experience as well as the value of trying to understand the world from the customer's or the student's point of view. Among many other things, it remains for me the standard of what can be accomplished by bringing together knowledge, hard work and the creative imagination. The one that I recall most vividly was wiggling through the pressing crowd in the foyer of the Arts Building to see the final examination marks.