Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla già mai la cima per soffiar di venti.
-Purgatorio Canto V
Dante Alighieri
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
---Michelangelo
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard" -unknown
"Excuses are the tools of the incompetent which build monuments of nothingness and bridges to nowhere.....
Those who specialize in them are seldom good at anything"
---And---
"If you're not first, you're last." -