“Even talent is rarely distinguishable over the long run from perseverance and lots of hard work.” ~ Bayles and Orland
Tag Archives: motivation
Firm
“Take your hat off to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men.” ~ Walt Whitman
Endure
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Insight
“Most great achievements are made through a combination of steady application and sudden insight.” ~ Richard Koch
Get to Work
“Just because you like Jimi Hendrix doesn’t mean you can play like Jimi Hendrix.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
Wonder
“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” ~ E.B. White
Insatiable
“You are unlikely to have a good and meaningful life unless you can overcome your insatiability.” ~ William Irvine
The Beginner
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
The End
“Our lives, thanks to their finitude are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time.” ~ Oliver Burkeman
Perception
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.” ~ Stephen Covey