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“Articulating a desire and pursuing it avidly makes it so much worse when you fail.”
― Supreme Ambitions
― Supreme Ambitions
“Have you ever had an experience where, had things turned out just a little bit differently, your entire life would have been transformed?
Like a Supreme Court clerkship, a Rhodes Scholarship gets mentioned in your obituary.
The door was open just a crack, in a way that seemed to say “I have an ‘open door’ policy, but I really don’t want to be bothered.”
Success didn’t take you off the treadmill, but simply put you on a different treadmill, at a higher speed and with a steeper incline.
When we’re young, overachieving, and unstoppable, we all think we’re special. But as we grow older, we reach a more realistic understanding of our place in the world. It happens at different times for different people, but eventually we all come to terms with our own ordinariness.”
― Supreme Ambitions
Like a Supreme Court clerkship, a Rhodes Scholarship gets mentioned in your obituary.
The door was open just a crack, in a way that seemed to say “I have an ‘open door’ policy, but I really don’t want to be bothered.”
Success didn’t take you off the treadmill, but simply put you on a different treadmill, at a higher speed and with a steeper incline.
When we’re young, overachieving, and unstoppable, we all think we’re special. But as we grow older, we reach a more realistic understanding of our place in the world. It happens at different times for different people, but eventually we all come to terms with our own ordinariness.”
― Supreme Ambitions
