Lewis Carroll — Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
Advice so obvious it sounds like a joke — and it is, in the book. But it quietly diagnoses most stuck people, who begin in the middle, or everywhere, or not at all.
Pick one page. One thought. One word. Start there, continue, finish. Then stop, satisfied. That is a complete day of learning.
Words that widen the world
To start doing something.
Synonyms: start, commence, launch
Begin at the beginning.
A particular order in which things follow each other.
Synonyms: order, series, progression
Learning has a sequence.
Common questions
It humorously advises doing things in proper order — start at the start, work through, and finish — rather than getting lost in complexity.
From Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865), spoken by the King.
Carry it with you
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