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Here's the real title and my quote " You can't wait for perfection you can only work toward it ." I'm a decent artist/craftsman , but hardly great . I keep looking for inspiration for that great work of ART . Yet it hasn't worked for me so here's a quote that's been an epiphany at least for me . "Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work." this is a Chuck Close quote . Here's the full quote or most of it anyway : "Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will — through work — bump into other possibilit

I did not write this poem .I just wanted to share it with you . Honor Your Fallenby =tanikel, Jul 16, 2012, 5:50:12 PMLiterature / Poetry / Emotional / Traditional Fixed Forms One for the man who answered the call.   One for the brother taken too soon. Another for the man who gave it his all. One for hearts heavy and sad. One for families torn apart And one for a boy now without his dad. One for the endless tears, One for the new struggles. Another for so many lost years. One for the mother's only son, One for the memories; And one more, one more until this war is won. One for the brother who's coming home under the Nation's f

A college student at a recent football game challenged a senior citizen sitting next to him, saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his. "You grew up in a different world," the student said...loud enough for the whole crowd to hear. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, man has walked on the Moon, our spaceships have visited Mars, we even have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing, cell phones and, uh .." Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the oldster said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we in