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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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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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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistrys haunting curse, the Incomplete! – Robert Browning

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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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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. – American Proverb

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