To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived -- to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that -- this doubtless is the right way to live.
Source: From an Internet collection of quotations.
-- Henry James, Jr, (Apr 15 1843-1916), English author; He was a master of the psychological novel and innocents abroad motifs, e.g., The Portrait of a Lady, 1881.