highs and lows

I've had a run of bad luck at the office recently. And while I believe that bad luck is the crutch of fools, I honestly think my deal drought owes more to dirty, nasty torrid awful luck than to any lack of skill on my part. I am better at my job than ever before - every person I speak to I can engage. Yet I feel like the guy at the poker table who keeps on getting pocket kings while his sworn enemy is getting pocket aces. I am far from folding, from throwing in the towel - I am made of tougher stuff. I am working harder than ever before, and I know something will come out of it in the end. The journey is difficult however.

A funny quote:
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields

Play for more than you can afford to
lose and you will learn the game.
Winston Churchill

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru