ALL THE BLOOD OF ONE’S BODY

All the Blood of One’s Body ~ 206 ~ he did so by lying on his study floor with his feet up so that the blood ran to his head.” Dirac’s answer might appear tongue-in-cheek, but in fact what he said was quite true. Great intellectual feats can only be accomplished by letting all the blood of one’s body run to one’s head—by channelling all one’s energy into the intellectual pursuit one had undertaken. Few people actually do this. They rather tend to diversify their efforts. Their failure to concentrate on a single goal renders all their efforts incomplete and ineffective. Every worthwhile task demands all the strength that an individual can muster. The only way to be successful in one’s work is to give it all one has.