Curtis

“Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“Athletes who have been gifted with exceptional talent and other blessings that enable them to sail to the top of their sport—athletes like Cadel Evans—may therefore be doubly disadvantaged where resilience is concerned.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

“Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.”
― Albert Einstein

“Competitiveness must be focused exclusively on the process of what you are doing rather than the result of that effort (the so-called winning or losing).”
― John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court