Napoleon said that he could always recover
lost space but never lost time. At the
battle of Gettysburg, 215 of 262 members of the Minnesota First Volunteers
became casualties charging against a Confederate force that was six times its
size. Union General Hancock ordered them
to charge all because he needed 15 more minutes to reinforce an open gap in the
Federal lines. Vince Lombardi never conceded defeat, only admitting “we ran of
time.” Steven Jobs declared the most
precious resource human beings have is time.
This
morning, I hit the snooze button for a handful of minutes that I’ll never
remember.
