Life principles
Short-term results come from intensity.
Long-term results come from consistency.
Long-term results come from consistency.
Brain Food: Greats Don't Wait
George Leonard on how mastery is nothing but a series of plateaus with brief spurts of progress:
“The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend most of your time on a plateau. That’s where the deepest, most lasting learning takes place, so you might as well enjoy... See more
“The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend most of your time on a plateau. That’s where the deepest, most lasting learning takes place, so you might as well enjoy... See more
Brain Food: A Series of Plateaus
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”
Agnès de Mille
La liberté consiste dans l’acceptation de ce qui nous arrive.
Écrire sa vie, par-delà le destin et la volonté
“Take your life into your own hands and what happens ? A terrible thing : no one to blame”
Erica Jong
Philosopher and writer Friedrich Nietzsche on enjoying the process:
"The end of a melody is not its goal."
"The end of a melody is not its goal."
3-2-1: On savoring your victories, being adaptable, and doing things cheaper, faster, and better
Life is what we made of it.
Never ask whether you can do something; say you’re doing it.
The what before the how. The how will follow.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Einstein