Quotes About Persistence

Nothing you face today will be harder than what you just did.

track of how many times we've been rejected. Keeping track of how many times it didn't work. Keeping track of all the times someone has broken our heart or double-crossed us or let us down. Of course, we can keep track of those things, but why? Why keep track of them? Are they making us better? "Wouldn't it make more sense to keep track of the other stuff? To keep track of all the times it worked?

This book aims to systematically overcome all of the above failure points, step-by-step.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." –Mae West

Bruce Pandolfini, Josh's original chess teacher, started their first class by taking him in reverse. The board was empty, except for three pieces in an endgame scenario: king and pawn against king.

true fulfillment comes from love of the process.

It's not what you know, it's what you do consistently.

Is the method effective?Have you ?narrowed down your material to the highest frequency? Is the method sustainable?Have you chosen a schedule and subject matter that you can stick with (or at least put up with) until reaching fluency? Will you actually swallow the pill you've prescribed yourself?

Persistence matters more than talent. The student with straight As is irrelevant if the student sitting next to him with Bs has more passion.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. —JOHN F. KENNEDY

It's usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones.

Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It

All you do is you pick a goal and you write it down 15 times a day in some specific sentence form, like 'I, Scott Adams, will become an astronaut,' for example. And you do that every day.

You will think it failed for Reason 1, but it failed for Reasons 1 through 5. And so the next business you start will fail for Reason 2, and then for 3 and so on.

The second strategy is fairly easy. Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort. In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I'm hardly an artist. And I'm not any funnier than the average standup comedian who never makes it big, but I'm funnier than most people. The magic is that few people can draw well and write jokes. It's the combination of the two that makes what I do so rare.

Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

Dr. B. J. Fogg, founder of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, wrote his graduate dissertation with a far less aggressive commitment. Even if he came home from a party at 3:00 A.M., he had to write one sentence per day. He finished in record time while classmates languished for years, overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. Understanding this

Mastery doesn't come from an infographic. What you know doesn't mean shit. What do yo do consistently?

El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable persiste en intentar adaptar el mundo a él. Por consiguiente, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable.» GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Máximas para revolucionarios

La tercera cosa es que cuando intentas hacer algo diez veces más grande, en lugar de un 10 por ciento mayor, no suele resultarte cien veces más difícil, pero la recompensa sí es cien veces mayor.»

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10 por ciento mayor, no suele resultarte cien veces más difícil, pero la recompensa sí es cien veces mayor.»

The stars will never align

Radz? sobie z odrzuceniem przez wytrwa?e d??enie, a nie przez poszukiwanie mo?liwo?ci gdzie indziej. Moja maksyma to s?owa Samuela Becketta, mojego osobistego idola: »Nieustannie próbuj. Nieustannie przegrywaj. To niewa?ne. Próbuj jeszcze raz. I jeszcze raz przegrywaj. Ale lepiej«. To nie do wiary, ile mo?na osi?gn??, d???c do niemo?liwego z odwag?, ponosz?c pora?ki, ale coraz mniejsze.