Slow success builds character. Fast success builds ego
Slow success builds character. Fast success builds ego
Jayson Clark added
Slow and steady wins the race, but an ego will end it.
Quincy Jones • 12 Notes: On Life and Creativity
The price of success is paid in private. Visible triumphs are built on invisible work.
—Farnham Street
Terence Faircloth added
I regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and always from periods of intense humility (i.e. your ego finally relenting)
sari and added
The truly awful thing about success is that it’s held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right.
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(More specifically, consistently producing great work over a long time horizon.)”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On patience, vision, and emphasizing joy
Isaac Feldman added
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. That intellectuality is more vigorous that has attained its strength gradually. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider,—and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation,—persevering in what he
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