Sarah Lewis Quotes

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

  Sarah Lewis

  Done, Thrive, Stills

  "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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• 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

  Motivational, Hard Work, Persistence

  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 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, Often Is, Views

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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

  Sarah Lewis

  Mastery, Labels, World

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• Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

  Sarah Lewis

  Arriving, Mastery, Reaching

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

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  Motivational, Lying, Goal

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Motivational, Pain, Punishment

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Motivational, Experts, Path

  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.

  Sarah Lewis

  Play, Curiosity

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• Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

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  Want, Gaps, Mastery

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• Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.

  Sarah Lewis

  Goal, Ends, Completion

  "Embrace the near win". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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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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  Helping, Wanted

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• The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

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  Motivational, Mastery, Pursuit

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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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.)

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  Motivational, Distance, Winning

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Sarah Lewis

  Cheer, Fun, Easy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Sarah Lewis

  Beautiful, Blow, Simple

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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