Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com