“That which one has set oneself to do, one should not relinquish on the grounds of absence of mind or distraction.” Leo Tolstoy

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard

“The middle of things is less exciting than the beginning and less dramatic than the end.” Andrew Solomon

“Add up the short runs … and you’re left with the long run. It’s going to be the long run a lot longer than the short run will last.” Seth Godin

“Just do the little things to make the lives of people around you better.” Simon Sinek

“Making things promotes psychological well-being.” + “Process is important for happiness because when w make, repair, or create things we feel vital and effective.” Psychology Today 

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” Kurt Vonnegut

“No matter in what direction you move as an artist, it’s important to keep going.” kristin.youdesignme

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” Japanese proverb

“Fast starts are never as important as a cultural hook, consistently showing up and committing to a process.” Seth Godin

“Show up, show up, show up and after a while the muse shows up, too.” Isabel Allende

“Tiny incremental improvements can produce dramatic results.” Nick Loper

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

“Doing things with rigor takes effort, but not everything you put effort into id done with rigor. Rigor is a focus on process. Paying attention to not just how you do things, but why. Rigor requires us to never use an emergency as an excuse. It is a process for the long haul, the work of a professional.” Seth Godin

Thoreau - the person who works hard doesn’t exert himself all day but has this leisure around accomplishing the task - a hen lays one eggs then feeds herself on things that feed the next egg

“in virtually every discipline, one of the most telling features of a dominant performer is the routine use of recovery periods.” Josh Waitzkin

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” Ray Bradbury
There’s no glass ceiling when it comes to creating, stained or otherwise.

“I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.” David Bowie

“You don’t have a choice about whether or not others have power in your life, but you do have a choice as to what kind of power others are going to have.” Dr. Henry Cloud