To hear you talk about a career is like listening to a
child. You think you can become a professional singer
by paying money to a teacher. There are lawyers and
doctors and business men in all lines who think that way
about their professions--that learning a little routine
of technical knowledge makes a lawyer or a doctor or
a merchant or a financier.''
``Tell me--WHAT ought I to learn?''
``Learn to think--and to persist. Learn to
concentrate. Learn to make sacrifices. Learn to handle
yourself as a great painter handles his brush and colors.
Then perhaps you'll make a career as a singer. If not,
it'll be a career as something or other.''
She was watching him with a wistful, puzzled expression.
``Could I ever do all that?''
``Anyone could, by working away at it every day.
If you gain only one inch a day, in a year you'll have
gained three hundred and sixty-five inches. And if you
gain an inch a day for a while and hold it, you soon
begin to gain a foot a day. But there's no need to
worry about that.
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