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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did wer

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. – George Bernard Shaw

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The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. – Swami Sivananda

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Slumps are like a soft bed. Theyre easy to get into and hard to get out of. – Johnny Bench

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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

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