Quotes About Achievement

Temple University sports psychologist Michael Sachs, who made an extensive study of these states, summed this up nicely: "Every gold medal or world championship that's ever been won, most likely, we now know, there's a flow state behind the victory.

Here, we want to break that mission statement down into smaller chunks, dividing up the impossible into a long series of difficult but doable goals that, if accomplished, render said impossible much more probable.

Motivation is what gets you into this game; learning is what helps you continue to play; creativity is how you steer; and flow is how you turbo-boost the results beyond all rational standards and reasonable expectations. That, my friends, is the real art of impossible.

If ever you say you can't do something," shouts the announcer, "remember Danny Way.

Flow tends to be the psychic signature of world-class performance and paradigm-shifting breakthroughs

It's not how good you are; it's how good you want to be.

The true challenge is how you continue doing it, after you've ridden the biggest wave, crossed the longest distance. You set up challenges that are more than what you ever did before. And by getting through it, you get the sensation you've completed something. And if it's dangerous, then other things that scare you, the experience will strengthen you for those situations.

Provided the right environment and the proper encouragement, it meant that everyone had a shot at perfection.

This did not come down to chance or luck. The happiest people on earth worked hard for their fulfillment. They didn't just have the most peak experiences, they had devoted their lives to having these experiences.

It means you lose by not trying to play full out, by not trying to do the impossible—whatever that is for you.

This is another reason why flow states significantly enhance performance: when the "self" disappears, it takes many of our limits along for the ride.

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion.

Flow is an alternative path toward mastery, but, like any path, not without its pitfalls. There's a serious dark side to flow

Any language is a supreme achievement of a uniquely human collective genius, as divine and endless a mystery as a living organism." A

meinstein n. My son, the genius.

The inventor of the highway guard rail did not get a Nobel Prize, nor are humanitarian awards given to designers of clearer prescription drug labels.

Graphs like figure 5-2 display a triumph of human well-being whose magnitude the mind cannot begin to comprehend.

liberal democracy is a precious achievement. Until the messiah comes, it will always have problems, but it's better to solve those problems than to start a conflagration and hope that something better arises from the ashes and bones. By failing to take note of the gifts of modernity, social critics poison voters against responsible custodians and incremental reformers who can consolidate the tremendous progress we have enjoyed and strengthen the conditions that will bring us more.

Recall that intelligence is the pursuit of goals in the face of obstacles.

Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge; but that's the problem.

The economist Steven Radelet has pointed out that "the improvements in health among the global poor in the last few decades are so large and widespread that they rank among the greatest achievements in human history.

A definition that is more or less faithful to the way the word is used is "the ability to use knowledge to attain goals.

The schooling, together with health and wealth, are literally making us smarter—by thirty IQ points, or two standard deviations above our ancestors.

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.