When I'm writing, I write all day. Other days, I sit around thinking. Or I run around from one meeting to another, out in the world. It varies, and I like that.
What then is your duty? What the day demands.
Do well the duty that lies before you.
I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.
But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
I live by the motto, 'To whom much is given, much is required.' I know that people are counting on me. That's why I have to keep working hard.
You have an obligation to try and make news. I have an obligation not to make news.
There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.
