Process
187 quotes: 6 by Keith Craft, 181 from other voices.
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- Every habit and faculty is maintained and increased by the corresponding actions: the habit of walking by walking, the habit of running by running. If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.
- Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, — as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.
- Everything you want stands on the other side of thousands of hours of monotonous consistency. Learn to cherish it.
- Excitement comes from the achievement. Fulfillment comes from the journey that got us there.
- Focus on building habits, not chasing outcomes.
- Focus on your current trajectory, not your current results.
- For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
- Goals are for signalling. Systems are for winning.
- Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
- Goals give direction. Systems deliver results.
- Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.
- Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time.
- Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
- Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a method of traveling.
- Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
- How our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
- How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
- I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
- [I]mport into Education the wisdom of life. Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.
- If a great thing can be done at all, it can be done easily; but it is in that kind of ease with which a tree blossoms after long years of gathered strength.
- If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
- If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.
- If you go faster, you don’t go far. This is one of the biggest contradictions in life. Slow and steady gets your farther — over time.
- If you have good habits, time becomes your ally. All you need is patience.
- If you stop, it’s a failure. If you keep going, it’s an iteration.
- If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
- Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- Imitate time. It destroys slowly. It undermines, wears, loosens, separates. It does not uproot.
- In composing a book, the last thing that one learns is to know what to put first.
- Irritation, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
- It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
- It is by attempting to reach the top by a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
- It is far easier to make a great rush than to plod steadily on through a long life.
- It is just as easy to form a good habit as it is a bad one. And it is just as hard to break a good habit as a bad one. So get the good ones and keep them.
- It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
- It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
- It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
- It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
- I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.