Tri Le

“I’m not the smartest guy, but I can outwork you. It’s the one thing I can control.”
― Linda Kaplan Thaler, Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary

“You’d be surprised at the edge you can develop by applying yourself for an extra half hour on something—a goal, a skill, a job. Pick the time of day when you are most productive (early morning, after a jog, or in the quiet of a Sunday evening) and instead of watching a sitcom, devote yourself to whatever “it” might be. A half hour each day adds up to 180 hours of extra practice a year!”
― Linda Kaplan Thaler, Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary

“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
― Oliver Sacks, Gratitude: Oliver Sacks

“These then are tales of metamorphosis, brought about by neurological chance, but metamorphosis into alternative states of being, other forms of life, no less human for being so different.”
― Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales