“...there are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, figuring out really hard problems, it all takes time―longer than most people imagine....you've got to apply those skills and produce goods or services that are valuable to people....Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you're willing to stay loyal to it...it's doing what you love, but not just falling in love―staying in love.”
― Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
― Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
“You desire to tame everything, but if you just stand still and feel for a moment you would know how everything yearns to be wild.”
― Fup
― Fup
“Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“It’s heartbreaking how much it costs to be alive when you’re always dying.”
― The First to Die at the End
― The First to Die at the End
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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