“If you want to be average, focus on the performance. If you want to be the best, focus on making practice harder than performance.”
"You are not responsible for other people’s opinions, feelings, or perceptions of you. They own that, not you."
- Shane Parrish
Self-awareness
"A happy person doesn’t have to convince other people they are happy. Either you are or you’re not. And if you are, you’re not taking selfies to show people."
- Shane Parrish
Happiness
"That feeling when you give it all you have, and life still kicks your ass."
- Shane Parrish
Adversity
"Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever."
- Shane Parrish
Adversity
"Reading speed is nothing more than signaling. Skim broadly to find something worth reading. Then dive in slowly and deeply. It’s not how fast you read but what you absorb that matters."
- Shane Parrish
Learning
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."
- Melissa McCarthy
Determination
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."
- Walt Disney
Determination
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination