Summary of Grit Quotes

“Practice requires you to do things that interest you better than you did yesterday.”
― FastReads, Summary of Grit: The Power & Passion of Perseverance | Includes Key Takeaways & Analysis

“Talent means how quickly people are able to improve their skills when they put in the effort. • Achievement takes place when people use the skills they have acquired.”
― FastReads, Summary of Grit: The Power & Passion of Perseverance | Includes Key Takeaways & Analysis

“Sociologist Dan Chambliss published a study titled The Mundanity of Excellence in which he argued that an extraordinary performance is a convergence of various small activities that, when looked in isolation, are nothing but ordinary actions.”
― FastReads, Summary of Grit: The Power & Passion of Perseverance | Includes Key Takeaways & Analysis

“Darwin stated: “For I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work.”
― FastReads, Summary of Grit: The Power & Passion of Perseverance | Includes Key Takeaways & Analysis

“interest, practice, purpose, and hope. Interest and purpose are two sources of passion. Practice and hope help develop perseverance which nurtures the “never give up” attitude. This”
― FastReads, Summary of Grit: The Power & Passion of Perseverance | Includes Key Takeaways & Analysis