The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. – Andrew Carnegie
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard days work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. – J. K. Rowling
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. – John Henry Newman