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Greatness
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Author Irving Stone has spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these exceptional people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life…have a vision or dream of something that should be accomplished…and they go to work. “They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified and for years they get nowhere. But every time they’re knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people. And at the end of their lives they’ve accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do.” Some associated illustrations and quotes on perservering: Tanzanian runner limps to finish Christopher Reeve, Napoleon, etc. on Perservering Pilot sucked out of the airplane Thomas Edison on Failure Greatness The lesson of the Two Frogs President Andrew Jackson People who Perserved |
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