Sarah Lewis famous quotes

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 Lewis

#Pain #Punishment #Rewards

We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.
-- Sarah Lewis

#Done #Thrive #Stills

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'
-- Sarah Lewis

#World #Mastery #Labels

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could,
-- Sarah Lewis

#Helping #Wanted

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 Lewis

#Path #Experts #Realizing

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.
-- Sarah Lewis

#Play #Curiosity

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 Lewis

#Motivational #Distance #Winning

Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.
-- Sarah Lewis

#Goal #Ends #Completion

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,
-- Sarah Lewis

#Mastery #Pursuit

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.
-- Sarah Lewis

#Lying #Goal #Benefits

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 Lewis

#Hard Work #Simple #Persistence

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.
-- Sarah Lewis

#Mastery #Arriving #Reaching

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 Lewis

#Commitment #Views #Goal