“Nothing worth
having comes easily”
Theodore Roosevelt
Ever wonder about stories of worldly success that went
something like...
“I wrote it in an afternoon and knew a friend of a friend of an editor, so I passed it on to them never thinking about it amounting to anything and was surprised a week later to have an offer of publication. The rest is history.”
From the writer of a children’s classic picture book.
“I wrote it in an afternoon and knew a friend of a friend of an editor, so I passed it on to them never thinking about it amounting to anything and was surprised a week later to have an offer of publication. The rest is history.”
From the writer of a children’s classic picture book.
"I was working selling shoes when I became an actor
after a talent agent approached me one rainy afternoon, and a few months later I became a movie
star never having imagined my life would go anywhere near such, and the rest
is history."
From a forty-year acting career veteran and much $$$ later.
From a forty-year acting career veteran and much $$$ later.
"I never thought of myself as an inventor. I accidentally mixed
some ingredients in the kitchen while making a failed birthday cake for my dog, and wound up with something the whole world needed, and the rest is
history."
From A Nobel Prize winner
From A Nobel Prize winner
If you don’t know these stories, you haven’t been to the
movies in a very long time, and possibly avoid reading fiction, also.
I think we all secretly live with such fantastic hopes for ourselves, even as they
are not the way it usually goes. (That's an understatement.)
I don’t think that if it came easily it isn’t worth having. That thinking is too puritanical, even for me.
I don’t think that if it came easily it isn’t worth having. That thinking is too puritanical, even for me.
But I think a creative worthwhile life begins when you can
let go of this sort of narrative and make the assumption that it just ain’t so.
That’s when I get to work.
“The work praises
the person”
An Irish saying
