Sarah Lewis quotes
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“Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.”
-- Sarah LewisSource : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.78, Simon and Schuster
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“We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.”
-- Sarah LewisSource : "How Do Our Near-Wins Motivate Us To Keep Going?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 18, 2014.
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“Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'”
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“Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could,”
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“Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future.”
-- Sarah LewisSource : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
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“Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.”
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“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)”
-- Sarah LewisSource : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
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“Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.”
-- Sarah LewisSource : "Embrace the near win". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.
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“The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,”
-- Sarah LewisSource : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
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“To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.”
-- Sarah LewisSource : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
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“Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.”
-- Sarah LewisSource : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
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“Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.”
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“Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.”
-- Sarah LewisSource : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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