Lost time is never found again. And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily. Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. One of these days is none of these days. The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.
Every new day begins with possibilities.
You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it. It is there all the time. But more important than all this is the undeniable fact that working with a woodblock takes on the aspects of a struggle between antagonists. The wood is reluctant, the artist determined, and it is reasonable to suggest that the battle of wills brings about a result quite different from those media in which the hand of the artist moves brush or pencil or crayon freely over the working surface. With wood, every movement of the tool involves overcoming resistance and demands the use of a certain amount of sheer physical force.