A quote by Jacob A. Riis
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A quote by Jacob A. Riis
“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,”
Viktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Mastery requires patience. The San Antonio Spurs, one of the most successful teams in NBA history, have a quote from social reformer Jacob Riis hanging in their locker room: “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and
... See moreJames Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Mastery requires patience. The San Antonio Spurs, one of the most successful teams in NBA history, have a quote from social reformer Jacob Riis hanging in their locker room: “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred a
... See moreJames Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Success is harder to come by when your life depends on it.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.19 Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before.”
James Clear • Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller
I love the quote from author Kent Nerburn that, “Debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die.