Raise The Bar

After his first audition, a casting director told actor Sidney Poitier, “Why don’t you stop wasting people’s time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?” It was at that moment, recalls Poitier, that he decided to devote his life to acting. He wasn’t going to let someone else decide his life path. - John Mason, Expect to Win

INSIGHT
Words dig deep. Deep enough to hurt and scar, or deep enough to raise the bar on the determination to succeed.