{"id":912,"date":"2013-05-24T01:11:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T05:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/?p=912"},"modified":"2014-04-17T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T17:59:09","slug":"when-to-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/quotes\/when-to-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"When to Give Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is it fate or simply arrogance? Is it really our destiny to succeed, or is it just our over-developed creative ego talking? When do we know if we&#8217;re really the creative artist that we think\/hope we are? When exactly does perseverance turn into foolishness, and when does self-confidence become delusions of grandeur?<\/p>\n<p>How do we know if we are really as good as we think we are? \u00a0How long do we commit ourselves to finding out? \u00a0How much time should we spend traveling down a certain path before we discover we are simply wasting our time? And how will we know when we reach that point?<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for answers, I don&#8217;t have them. \u00a0I only have the questions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>The picture you have in your own mind of what you&#8217;re about will come true.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n~Bob Dylan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Is it fate or simply arrogance? Is it really our destiny to succeed, or is it just our over-developed creative ego talking? When do we know if we&#8217;re really the creative artist that we think\/hope we are? When exactly does perseverance turn into foolishness, and when does self-confidence become50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,22],"tags":[424,423,425,426,427],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-quotes","category-success","tag-bob-dylan-birthday-2013","tag-bob-dylan-quotes","tag-bob-dylan-quotes-on-life","tag-bob-dylan-quotes-tumblr","tag-when-to-give-up"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bob-Dylan-Destiny-Quote.jpg?fit=1000%2C635&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Luu2-eI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}