The long slog and the slow motion miracle

• Tue, August 17 2010
• Filed under: Fun stuff

A friend sent me this great quote from a Gail Collins piece in the NY Times on women gaining the right to vote - which was preceded by a 70-year slog.

“We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.”

Our work is sometimes boring and often frustrating, but it’s leading somewhere eventually—a slow motion miracles played out over a very long time.