patience
the art of waiting
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patience
Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. You get better.
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
Patricia • The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.41
“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 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.”
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. 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.”
A quote by Jacob A. Riis
I also think a lot about the old, iconic structures around the world that have stood the test of time and, in many cases, where we aren’t quite sure of all the details of how they were constructed. Marvels like the Colosseum, Roman aqueducts, or the Great Wall. Incredible architectural feats that were, by necessity, built to last and built slowly –... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures)
Spanish artist Maider López turned a traffic jam into art with her 2005 piece, “Ataskoa." #Art
youtube.comwhat if waiting is the goal?
“Shortcuts will cut you short. There are no shortcuts in life.”
- Narendra Modi (PM of India, on Lex Fridman)
- Don’t give up easily . Stick with it. Stick with it not forever, but really give it a chance to get where you’re going.
How many people have that kind of patience, persistence, and confidence?
The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."