No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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

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

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. – Heywood Hale Broun