Quotes About Persistence

Nélida Piñon costuma dizer que, de alguma forma, todos os dias alguém bate à nossa porta e nos convida a desistir. Não desistimos de teima quem sabe até meio burra.

but don't worry, I won't take any drastic measures, beyond keeping going, is there anything more self-destructive than persisting without faith?

Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. There

Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.

In hindsight, these observations are obvious. If life-transforming missions could be found with just a little navel-gazing and an optimistic attitude, changing the world would be commonplace. But it's not commonplace; it's instead quite rare. This rareness, we now understand, is because these breakthroughs require that you first get to the cutting edge, and this is hard—the type of hardness that most of us try to avoid in our working lives. The

There is a middle ground, and if you're interested in developing a deep work habit, you must fight to get there.

Se tan bueno que no puedan ignorarte.

Sertillanges seems to have been ahead of his time, arguing in The Intellectual Life, "Men of genius themselves were great only by bringing all their power to bear on the point on which they had decided to show their full measure." Ericsson couldn't have said it better.)

Without this patient willingness to reject shiny new pursuits, you'll derail your efforts before you acquire the capital you need.

If you're not focusing on becoming so good they can't ignore you, you're going to be left behind.

It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.

The point of providing these details is to emphasize that intelligent machines are complicated and hard to master.* To join the group of those who can work well with these machines, therefore, requires that you hone your ability to master hard things. And because these technologies change rapidly, this process of mastering hard things never ends: You must be able to do it quickly, again and again.

Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable.

Conclusion #2: Passion Takes Time

Si queremos triunfar, debemos producir lo mejor que nuestras capacidades nos permitan producir: se trata de una labor que requiere trabajo profundo.

By working on a single hard task for a long time without switching, Grant minimizes the negative impact of attention residue from his other obligations, allowing him to maximize performance on this one task.

the ability to concentrate is a skill that gets valuable things done.

Alex Berger, he didn't arrive at his outstanding job by following a clear passion. Instead he carefully and persistently gathered career capital, confident that valuable skills would translate into valuable opportunities.

The art of mission, we can conclude, asks us to suppress the most grandiose of our work instincts and instead adopt the patience

The key thing is to force yourself through the work, force the skills to come; that's the hardest phase,

To succeed you have to produce the absolute best stuff you're capable of producing—a task that requires depth.

Don't follow your passion; rather, let it follow in your quest to become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, "so good that they can't ignore you.

The difference in our abilities by the age of eighteen had less to do with the number of hours we practiced—though he probably racked up more total practice hours than I did, we weren't all that far apart—and more to do with what we did with those hours.

To join the group of those who can work well with these machines, therefore, requires that you hone your ability to master hard things. And because these technologies change rapidly, this process of mastering hard things never ends: You must be able to do it quickly, again and again.