" If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody..."
" If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody..."
As the North Carolina women’s soccer coach Anson Dorrance said, “The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.”
Daniel Coyle • The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
the following words of the illustrious philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that s
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Practice too little, and you never become world-class. Practice too much, and you increase the odds of being struck down by injury, draining yourself mentally, or burning out.
William Ballard • Only 4 Hours of Creative Power
Amassing a body of work or building a career is a lot about the slow accumulation of little bits of effort over time.