Sarah Lewis quotes:
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Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.
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Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.
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Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
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Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.
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A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)
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Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could,
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Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future.
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Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.
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Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.
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Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'
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The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,
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To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.
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We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.