There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley

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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes. – Michael Lipsey

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. – Molly Ringwald

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – William Hazlitt

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