The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
You never know what motivates you.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Well done is better than well said.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.