Everything Under the Sun is in Tune
My good friend Mason Orr shared the following quote with me recently and it seems very applicable at this season in my life.
"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”--Jacob Riis
Some days you just have to go out and pound the rock.
Labels: Jacob Riis, Life, Quotes
5 Comments:
ecclesiastes, solomon
cblair
C.Blair,
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Try again.
"Eclipse" - Pink Floyd. Justin, might I ask who Jacob Riis is? Too lazy to Google it.
-Ben Grant
P.S. - He kind of looks like Cliff from "Cheers." Maybe?
-Ben
Ben,
Riis was a "muckraker" journalist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He documented the lives of New York's poorer classes and brought national attention to the problems in slums.
I'm still not sure why he talked about stonecutters.
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