Ambition and Curiosity

I am not worried that I will dream too big and fail. I am afraid that I will dream too small and succeed.

This idea has doubtless come from some distillation of previous reading - who knows where - but it came to me driving home from work today. I feel the temptation to just go along with the obvious consensus but there is something in me that gets angry about that. In trying to sort this out I composed this quote for my own sense of reference. If someone else said it let me know. I won't be surprised because every curiosity driven human being has felt this often enough.

Some of my projects at work are inspiring and the most compelling ones are likely to die young. But I would rather them die young than have my hopes atrophy and my creative fires die. There is always a price in creating and the real nerve comes in pushing that price up and up. I can't imagine how dull life would be without that.