“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutterhammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without asmuch as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and firstblow it will split in two, and I know it was not that lastblow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter

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 that last

blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

A quote by Jacob A. Riis

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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.

Jacob Riis

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