No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb

Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.

The minute you put the blame on someone else you’ve switch things from being a problem you can control to a problem outside of your control. -- engtech (internetducttape.com)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving