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Persistence

September 25, 2013 By Ying 2 Comments

Hello, friends. I've been thinking this week about life's important, meaningful, and really unglamorous lessons. Specifically, I've been thinking about that Thomas Edison quotation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Or, as John Ruskin put it nearly fifty years earlier, "I know of no genius but the genius of hard work." This all came to mind because at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Do Tagged With: inspiration, Tim Wynne-Jones, WritersFest, Writing

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