By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
I can, therefore I am.
Well done is better than well said.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.