Process
187 quotes: 6 by Keith Craft, 181 from other voices.
Other voices on Process
- Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
- To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.
- To understand success, pay less attention to the final product and more to the mundane process. […] The seeds of greatness are planted in the daily grind.
- Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
- Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
- Visible outcomes are the result of years of effort applied in the same direction when no one is watching. It looks sexy, but it’s incredibly boring on a daily basis.
- We are not raised the first day to the summit of perfection. It is by climbing, not by flying, that we arrive there.
- We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
- We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.
- We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
- Well begun is half done.
- What looks like skill is often persistent revision.
- What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence.
- When short-term tasks feel trivial, lumping them into a larger goal makes them meaningful. When long-term goals feel impossible, slicing them into smaller pieces makes them manageable.
- When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
- Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things.
- You can not succeed in life by spasmodic jerks. You can not win confidence, nor earn friendship, nor gain influence, nor attain skill, nor reach position, by violent snatches.
- You cannot change your destination overnight. But you can change your direction.
- You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
- You don’t find your purpose. You build your purpose, experiment by experiment, mistake by mistake.
- You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.
- You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
- You only control the effort, not the results.
- You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
- You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.
- Your 1st blog post will be bad, but your 1000th will be great. Your 1st workout will be weak, but your 1000th will be strong. Your 1st meditation will be scattered, but your 1000th will be focused. Put in your reps.