“Even talent is rarely distinguishable over the long run from perseverance and lots of hard work.” ~ Bayles and Orland
Tag Archives: self-improvement
Firm
“Take your hat off to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men.” ~ Walt Whitman
Get to Work
“Just because you like Jimi Hendrix doesn’t mean you can play like Jimi Hendrix.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
Wonder
“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” ~ E.B. White
Insatiable
“You are unlikely to have a good and meaningful life unless you can overcome your insatiability.” ~ William Irvine
The Beginner
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
The End
“Our lives, thanks to their finitude are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time.” ~ Oliver Burkeman
Perception
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.” ~ Stephen Covey
The Reader
“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.” ~ Walter Mosley
Elevate
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.” ~ Henry David Thoreau