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Don't mistake patience and endurance for skill.

• simplify 16y ago
  I'd say they're highly correlated. How else do you obtain skill?
• thunk 16y ago
  They're close enough for me.
• mixmax 16y ago
  1% inspiration, 99% persipration.
  • donaq 16y ago
    “If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." - Nikola Tesla
    • gjm11 16y ago
      I'm sure Edison was crying all the way to the bank over the labour he expended.
    • jtheory 16y ago
      Oh, Nikola -- missed your chance for an extra jibe in there. "...a little theory and calculation" -- and a big electromagnet, assuming a ferric needle.