Leonardo da Vinci
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself; you will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself; the height of your success is gauged by your self-mastery, the depth of your failure by your self-abandonment.
Steven Bartlett on doing things to prove yourself right:
“ Everything you do - with or without an audience - provides evidence to you about who you are and what you're capable of.”
Great outcomes aren't built on great days, but on consistent ones.
You can't just count the days when it's easy. Each day moves you closer to the goal. No day is a hero; no day is a villain.
Perfect days don't compound. Consistent ones do.
You don't need more time. You need more focus.
Time isn't the constraint. Your choices are.
Everyone gets the SAME 24 hours - it's your choice what you do with it!
Computer scientist and electrical engineer Lynn Conwayon making the future a reality:
"If you want to change the future, start living as if you're already there."
"If you keep showing up, you'll almost certainly break through — but probably not in the way you expected or intended. You need enough persistence to keep working and enough flexibility to enjoy success when it comes in a different form than you imagined."
-@JamesClear
When you think something's impossible, consider this: people who achieve extraordinary things are willing to endure what others won't.
What you call impossible is often just pain you're unwilling to endure.
Mary Oliver on avoiding regrets:
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Yvon Chouinard on not forcing it:
“A serious surfer doesn’t plan to go surfing next Tuesday at 2 o’clock. You go surfing when there are waves and wind and the tide is right.”
Think of relationships like a garden: some plants naturally thrive and help everything around them grow, while others struggle despite constant care. Every hour spent on a toxic connection is stolen from relationships with real potential.
Your best relationships aren't just connections - they're multipliers that improve everything in your life. Yet, we often exhaust ourselves trying to save difficult relationships while neglecting the good ones.
Great work requires being stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods. The best people stick relentlessly to what they want to achieve, but adapt how to achieve it when they see a better way. Most people cling to their methods even when better options appear.
Yelling at traffic doesn't make it move faster. Rehearsing the same complaints about your spouse doesn't change their behavior. Getting angry at the delayed flight doesn't make it take off sooner.
All the energy put into arguing with reality doesn't improve your situation.