I remember the first time I read the passge below from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life–it stuck with me. So much so that I heard it in my head over and over (that being a time in my life when I was being quite wasteful of time). I repeated it to people. I urged them to read it for themselvses:
After Michelangelo died, someone found in his studio a piece of paper on which he had written a note to his apprentice, in the handwriting of his old age: “Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.”
myfanwy collins 