patience
the art of waiting
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patience
“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
If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it—every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life.
Daniel McGinn • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
"the gradual + slow build of something beautiful and substantial interests me more than suddenly giving into what feels convenient or pleasurable in one slice of a moment in time" https://t.co/SyooBOYZ4p
“The fast way is the slow way because the slow way is the only way”
– Steven Bartlett
Clay's trajectory is a reminder that sometimes things take a while to bake (h/t: @edsim) https://t.co/eeiT4zqAdv
100x method —
"the most successful things I’ve done have one thing in common: I’ve done them at least 100 times."
if you want to start a project, commit to 100 iterations.
1. takes you past the dip: the inevitable downturn when you feel stuck/bored/... See more