success
by Prashanth Narayan and · updated 1mo ago
success
most of success comes from doing the mundane and often distasteful stuff, like identifying and dealing with problems and pushing hard over a long time.
from Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
phoebe added 5mo ago
Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
from Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
phoebe added 5mo ago
love this.
- wholeness isn’t something we acquire by stacking achievements or checking boxes or acquiring products or consumer goods. And I worry about this because I have two small children myself. They are five and six, and I’m thinking often about the world that they’re growing up in and what is that world telling them about who they should be and what succe... See more
from Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer
Alara added 10mo ago
- Kevin Kelly has this great idea that you need your own distinct definition of success. For me, success would be cultivating a very specific reputation. I'd like my reputation to be "talk to that guy and you'll leave energized, thinking about something new. Good things will happen, and it'll generally cost you nothing."
from Tweet by Patrick OShaughnessy
sari added 1y ago
- This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms. Be... See more
from "1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech" by James Clear
sari added 1y ago
Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.
from Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
sari added 1y ago
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