“most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things:”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“I heard you saying you’d kill my grandson if he took another step toward your beloved, young man. How illogically, toxically romantic of you. Have to admit, that kind of confident violence isn’t what I pictured when Asher talked about you, but the brown hair, those…I guess they’re brown eyes, and how utterly smitten he predicted you two would eventually be for each other? Well, he described you almost perfectly, Dain Aetos.”
― Onyx Storm
― Onyx Storm
“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
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