The real question is whether there's anything to back up the flash, like hard work, patience and discipline.
Mr. Springsteen's best songs, it seems to me, are about compromise and stoicism; disappointment and faith; work, patience and resignation.
"We got here from hard work, patience and humility, so I want to tell you: Don't ever think that the world owes you anything, because it doesn't.
This congeries of ideas included careful grassroots political work, patience, guerrilla techniques gradually leading to conventional operations as the opposition weakened, and the selective use of terror.
He preached hard work, patience and submission to Jim Crow and even worse abuses until some distant day when whites would recognize blacks as worthy of equality.
In addition, arts programs and team sports that are being dropped from the curriculum should be reinstated; the lessons they provide about hard work, patience, goal setting, responsibility, and focus will reward students later on.
