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You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall. — Will Smith

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever. - Neil Gaiman

“Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of loyalty to who I am as a person, based solely on who I was as a person. To be loyal to myself is to allow myself to grow and change, and challenge who I am and what I think. The only thing I am for sure is unsure, and this means I’m growing, and not stagnant or shrinking.”    ―  Jarod Kintz

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

Here is small story about Chinese bamboo ,which was said by a well known cricketer Rahul Dravid in one of his speeches. Dravid said "My wife and I have built a new home with a lovely garden which houses lovely bamboo trees. I got reading on the Chinese bamboo and learned that the tree takes 5 years, 3 months to grow to its whole height of 80 feet. Yet, for the first 5 years, you can only see a tiny green shoot, but in the next 90 days, it grows into a full-fledged tree. But in those first 60 months, it is growing its strong network of roots underground, to support the tree. In an era of instant gratification, we settle for shorter trees, but remember patience has its reward. These are your years of growing that strong network of roots but be sure when you finally achieve your success, people will call it 'overnight success'. If only they knew of the Chinese bamboo!"  ​ So whenever you fail.. Just remember you are not failing but building a strong network of roots to

In his novel Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami writes:  There just happen to be people like that. They’re blessed with this  marvelous talent, but they can’t make the effort to systematize it. They  end up squandering it in little bits and pieces. I’ve seen my share of  people like that. At first you think they’re amazing. Like, they can  sight-read some terrifically difficult piece and do a damn good job  playing it all the way through. You see them do it, and you’re  overwhelmed. You think, ‘I could never do that in a million years.’ But  that’s as far as they go. They can’t take it any further. And why not?  Because they won’t put in the effort. Because they haven’t had the  discipline pounded into them. They’ve been spoiled. They have  just enough talent so they’ve been able to play things well without any  effort and they’ve had people telling them how great they are from the  time they’re little, so hard work looks stupid to them.