Today's Quotation

Here's a piece of metaphorical insight from the great photojournalist Jacob Riis (1849-1914), who was born in Denmark but made his reputation working in New York City. If you think about this, you'll realize it applies to more than stone cutting:

"Look at a stone cutter 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 the last blow that did it, but all that
had gone before."