Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. – Jane Ellice Hopkins

Too aim is not enough, you must hit! – Proverb

Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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