Hmm…came across this quote and figured I’d memorialize it somewhere. I could email it to myself but then that would just get buried in the avalanche of crap that constitutes my email account.

"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. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
–  President Calvin Coolidge 1932

 To be honest I rarely take a liking to quotes from American Presidents, what with "I didn’t inhale" and "Mission accomplished" being the more memorable of the recent ones, not to mention "I did not have sex with that woman" (just used her to cut my cigar) but…disgusting jokes aside I really like that quote. Never follow it of course, being the lazy bastard that I am, but I’ll show it to my kids someday. If I ever getting around to making any that is…