“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?” ― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
To quote Gil Fronsdal from a recent Dharma talk, “The path itself seems so precious; getting to the capital seems secondary.”
Anna Fusco • My Dream is Not a Baby
My advice to people early in their career is pretty simple: your mission isn’t to pursue a career, it’s to discover it. Put yourself in interesting situations. Each experience is a building block and, in the future, you’ll figure out how to arrange (and rearrange) all those blocks in ways that make sense for you. People with impressive careers may... See more