“If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.”
Kenneth Goldsmith
more infosource: “Proudly Fraudulent: An Interview with MoMA’s First Poet Laureate, Kenneth Goldsmith,” by Mark Allen, The Awl, February 6, 2013.
category: archive, collecting, creative process, persistence
medium: Interview
via: Austin Kleon“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
more infosource: The Crack Up (New York: New Directions, 2009) [reprint], 126.
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category: aging, perseverance, persistence, vitality
medium: notebook
“One drop of water can accomplish very little, but hundreds of millions of drops can cut through rock or, indeed, change the face of the Earth.”
Swami Sivananda Radha
more infosource: Mantras: Words of Power (Kootenay Bay, British Columbia: Timeless Books, 2005), 25.
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category: mantra, persistence, perspective, spirituality, water
medium: spirituality
“Mantra is not a magic pill; rather it is like a steady stream of water that gradually wears down the hardest stone.”
Swami Sivananda Radha
more infosource: Mantras: Words of Power (Kootenay Bay, British Columbia: Timeless Books, 2005), 51.
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medium: spirituality
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
more infosource: “Worstward Ho,” in Nohow on: Three Novels (New York: Grove Press, 1980), 89.
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category: effort, endurance, failure, persistence
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