Inspire
quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard):
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People sl
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“Life isn’t coming at you; life is coming from you.”
—Jason Mraz
@ Carnegie Hall
November 23, 2011
Great originals are great procrastinators, but they don’t skip planning altogether. They procrastinate strategically, making gradual progress by testing and refining different possibilities.
Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.
—Jorge Wagensberg
“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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