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this is “where we decide who will and who will not”
You might be all of those things. You got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there’s two things: You’re getting off first, or I’m going to die. It’s really that simple.
“Eighty percent of success in life is showing up.”
Even more than the effort a gritty person puts in on a single day, what matters is that they wake up the next day, and the next, ready to get on that treadmill and keep going.
Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.
On any long journey, detours are to be expected.
To be gritty is to resist complacency.
“My work is important—both to me and to others.”
“Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to the paradise of that achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration. There are daily small deaths.”
the alternative to deliberate practice—mindlessly “going through the motions” without improvement—can be its own form of suffering.
“There is no more miserable human being,” observed William James, than the one for whom “the beginning of every bit of work” must be decided anew each day.
create a routine - and routine is the best way to do hard things.
When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop searching, assuming they can’t be found, you guarantee they won’t.
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t—you’re right.”
The word parenting derives from Latin and means “to bring forth.”
“This taught me not to tangle my ego up in the code I write,” Tobi said. “There are always ways to improve it and getting this feedback is a gift.”
I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.
“talent is common; what you invest to develop that talent is the critical final measure of greatness.”
“The true joy in life is to be a force of fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
They recognize that complacency has its charms, but none worth trading for the fulfillment of realizing their potential.
