“In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot–and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainity. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.”

–the last paragraph of the classic text “Art & Fear” by David Bayles and Ted Orland.