Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.
And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. Wed meet, theyd come and seek me out, wed talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. – Wole Soyinka