Rosemary Goodwin
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Rosemary Goodwin
“The fact is one's own voice is not heard anywhere else. It's a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.”
—Yusef Lateef
The surest way to be successful is to invent your own definition of success. Shoot your arrows first and then paint a bull’s eye around where they land. You’re the winner!
Complaints often conceal requests for change; expressing concerns as requests fosters collaboration, reduces negativity, and encourages constructive dialogue, ultimately leading to more effective communication and improved outcomes.
LinkInside every complaint is a request
Slow progress is still a million times better than no progress.
Yvon Chouinard on not forcing it:
“A serious surfer doesn’t plan to go surfing next Tuesday at 2 o’clock. You go surfing when there are waves and wind and the tide is right.”
Still, to exist as a female tennis player in 2024 is to endure what can feel like endless slights: the micro-aggressions baked in; the structural inequality foundational to a sport run mostly by men; stark set-piece examples of inequality that can be hard to comprehend and harder to endure, for their magnitude, their reasoning, or more commonly bot
... See more“The things you do badly are as much part of your style as the things you do well.”
—Martin Scorsese
Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.”
— Attributed to Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist