Friday, March 14, 2008

One shell before the pearl

There are a thousand shells in front of man. Man begins to open one by one. If he doesn't find the pearl, he stops short – one shell before the pearl.

2 comments:

Anne-Marie said...

Excellent quote - I hadn't seen it before but it certainly typifies what sets the successful apart from the "I would be successful if only ..."

Mike said...

Written it down after seeing it within a dream. Observing a man going from shell to shell and then stop and like in a movie you wanted to encourage him, but he couldn't hear and he stopped one shell before the pearl.