Why do some people act on the possibilities before them, while others come to believe that nothing they do will make a difference?
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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John Gardner — Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society
The sea's unceasing motion is not restlessness but fidelity — it returns always to the same shores, wearing them away not by violence but by the patient insistence of its nature.
Loren Eiseley — The Immense Journey
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. And yet we spend our lives praising the horse and forgetting to plant the field.
Nikolai Gogol — Dead Souls