Persistence of vision

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.
  Lao-tzu

• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
  Henry Ford

• Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
  Henry Ford

• Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
  Calvin Coolidge

• It took Thomas Edison more than two thousand experiments before he got an adequately working light bulb. A reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times, to which Edison replied, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000 step process."