Quotes About Determination

The most common response to the Dip is to play it safe. To do ordinary work, blameless work, work that's beyond reproach. When faced with the Dip, most people suck it up and try to average their way to success.

A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner. Before you enter a new market, consider what would happen if you managed to get through the Dip and win in the market you're already in.

Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. kathrin jansen

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago.

Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you're going to get there one way or another . . . so they follow.

In fact, determination is precisely what's needed to write poetry or create art. Determination of the will opens the door for us to trust ourselves enough to actually find the words.

If I fail more times than you, I win.

It's easier to be mediocre than it is to confront reality and quit. Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre. What a waste.

Simple: If you can't make it through the Dip, don't start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you'll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

If you want to be a superstar, then you need to find a field with a steep Dip—a barrier between those who try and those who succeed. And you've got to get through that Dip to the other side. This isn't for everyone. If it were, there'd be no superstars.

Most of the time, if you fail to become the best in the world, it's either because you planned wrong or because you gave up before you reached your goal.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

The person who leans forward the most wins the race.

Vazgeçmek mutlaka pes etmek anlam?na gelmez.

Quitting creates scarcity; scarcity creates value.

For the important work, the instructions are always insufficient. For the work we'd like to do, the reward comes from the fact that there is no guarantee, that the path isn't well lit, that we cannot possibly be sure it's going to work.

Quit when you'll be mediocre, when the returns aren't worth the investment, when you no longer think you'll enjoy the ends. Stick when the dip is the obstacle that creates scarcity, when you're simply bridging the gap between beginner's luck and mastery.

Creativity is a choice, it's not a bolt of lightning from somewhere else.

Leadership almost always involves thinking and acting like the underdog.

Specific is a kind of bravery Specific means accountable.

Si no acabas, es como si no hubieras empezado; y si no empiezas, no avanzas

The more important the project we take on, the more difficult it is to find certainty that our work will succeed before we begin. We can begin with this: If we failed, would it be worth the journey? Do you trust yourself enough to commit to engaging with a project regardless of the chances of success?

The Dip is the reason you're here. It's not enough to survive your way through this Dip. You get what you deserve when you embrace the Dip and treat it like the opportunity that it really is.

Quit the wrong stuff. Stick with the right stuff. Have the guts to do one or the