I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

L’art qui satisfait le besoin le plus impérieux sera toujours le plus honoré. -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt