Five Hundred Yards at a Time
In *The Shawshank Redemption*, Andy Dufresne arrives at prison clutching a rock hammer barely larger than his fist. The guards laugh at it. What could...
This is movie analogies on patience.
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne arrives at prison clutching a rock hammer barely larger than his fist. The guards laugh at it. What could such a tool accomplish against walls three feet thick? The answer, it turns out, was everything — given enough time. Night after night, for nineteen years, Andy carved into the concrete behind a pinup poster in his cell.…
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