Don't get distracted by the radio...

It appears, from all that I have learned, that our eyes are uncertain. Two individuals look at the same clock and there somehow they can disagree on the exact time. One has a tendency to put back the hands, the other to advance them. It is because of this reason that I don't let myself too confidently try to play the part of the third person, who wishes to set the first two aright; it may well happen that I are mistaken in turn. I'm learning to see, without looking too closely at things and the world: they look better from a distance.

Don't quit - even when your latest efforts fail. Even when your performance is scoffed and ridiculed or when you're told you have no talent and you come in dead last. Don't quit when it seems an uphill fight to keep going and you can't see any possible way to achieve your goals. Don't quit when your last supporter is you alone and when discouragement and depression seem your only companion. For time and time again you will crave relief from the harsh fight of trying to succeed. You will falsely think that quitting will bring peace and reprieve, but alas, only regret and disappointment await the quitter. Victory means never ever quitting. So don't do it. Never quit.