John Shaw Billings Quote

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.


Selected Papers. Compiled with a Life of Billings, by Frank Bradway Rogers (ed. 1965)


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...

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...

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...

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...