“You don‘t try to build a wall. You don‘t set out to build a wall. You don‘t say ‘I‘m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that‘s ever been built.‘ You don‘t start there. You say I‘m gonna lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid, and you do that every single day, and soon you have a wall.”
Will Smith
“For 37 years I’ve practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!”
Pablo de Sarasate, Famous Spanish Violinist and Composer
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“The strongest oak tree in the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
Napoleon Hill
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
“Those artists who pursued their painting and sculpture more for the pleasure of the activity itself than for extrinsic rewards have produced art that has been socially recognized as superior … It is those who are least motivated to pursue extrinsic rewards who eventually receive them.”
Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their disinclination.”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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