Sarah Lewis
We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.Collection: Done
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.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Commitment
Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'Collection: Mastery
Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.Collection: Arriving
To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Motivational
Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.Collection: Want
Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.Collection: Play
Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.Collection: Goal
Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.Collection: Helping
The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.Collection: Motivational
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.)Collection: Motivational
Shoes are money well spent and a good metaphor for life: everything else in life may be awful but a shoe will cheer me up, lift my body and take an outfit up five levels. Plus, shoes are easy to carry and fun to collect.Collection: Cheer
I wanted a business that I didn't have to give my life to - something simple, beautiful and branded. The kind of endeavor where I could meet people but still blow people's minds with a very inspiring point of view. So, a shoe store.Collection: Beautiful