Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.' — Sarah Lewis Excellence Copy Share Image
We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do. — Sarah Lewis Done Copy Share Image
“If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place . . . If you’re rooted to a spot, you miss… — Sarah Lewis Grace Copy Share Image
Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. — Sarah Lewis Gaps Copy Share Image
“A fuller vision comes from our ability to recognize the fallibility in our current and past forms of sight.” — Sarah Lewis Dreams Copy Share Image
Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could, — Sarah Lewis Attain Copy Share Image
Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay… — Sarah Lewis Again and again Copy Share Image
I wanted a business that I didn't have to give my life to - something simple, beautiful and branded. The kind of… — Sarah Lewis Beautiful Copy Share Image
“How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist’s print, not… — Sarah Lewis Abolitionist Copy Share Image
Shoes are money well spent and a good metaphor for life: everything else in life may be awful but a shoe will… — Sarah Lewis Cheer Copy Share Image
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is… — Sarah Lewis Arguing Copy Share Image
A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance,… — Sarah Lewis Clarity Copy Share Image
“It was a truth that Leo Tolstoy declaimed a century or so ago: our response to art has the agency to do… — Sarah Lewis Art Copy Share Image
“In one of our conversations, she told me about Finland’s development of sisu, a rough cognate for grit. Etymologically, sisu denotes a… — Sarah Lewis Communication Copy Share Image
“A rise often falls into the blind spot of vision, and so we tell the stories that I have in this book… — Sarah Lewis Dreams Copy Share Image
“He told his story through autobiographies that garnered him wide acclaim (and a warrant for his life—as we know, he fled to… — Sarah Lewis Slavery Copy Share Image
“We permit a new future to enter the room with these startling encounters. A young boy from Austin, Texas, Charles Black Jr.,… — Sarah Lewis Jazz musician Copy Share Image
“There is no word to describe exactly what the High Line is to the non-architects among us, nor the collective reframing process… — Sarah Lewis Hudson river Copy Share Image
“Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson later said that there should be a “consilience” between art and science. 79 Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison… — Sarah Lewis Art Copy Share Image
To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp. — Sarah Lewis Audacious Copy Share Image
“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. —REBECCA SOLNIT” — Sarah Lewis Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Mizuta Masahide’s haiku: “My barn having burned down / I can now see the moon.” — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“Geim’s perspective, blunt as you like, is that it’s “better to be wrong than be boring,” so he lets those working on… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“You reach a point where you’re at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your… — Sarah Lewis Luckiest Copy Share Image
Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't… — Sarah Lewis Aim Copy Share Image
“It is embedded so deeply in the private lives of our more public shifts that we can forget it is there until… — Sarah Lewis Books Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Lewis Aim Copy Share Image
“The course of our lives, Douglass argued, resembles “a thousand arrows shot from the same point and aimed at the same object.”… — Sarah Lewis Sight Copy Share Image
“If we fail to cultivate grit, it is also because we often grant little importance to the practice of making and the… — Sarah Lewis Innovation Copy Share Image
“We have heard the stories: Duke Ellington would say, “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”… — Sarah Lewis Fred astaire Copy Share Image
“We all have a blind spot around our privileges shaped exactly like us,” Junot Díaz has said, and it can create blindness… — Sarah Lewis Art Copy Share Image
“We hear more about dignity and “pensive luster” from cultures where the patina of age is highly valued, from the shutaku (soil… — Sarah Lewis Chinese culture Copy Share Image
“The moment we designate the used or maligned as a state with generative capacity, our reality expands. President John F. Kennedy once… — Sarah Lewis Failure Copy Share Image
“How to scale and enter the risen path was largely unknown. It all might begin in darkness, but it cast a shadow… — Sarah Lewis Another world Copy Share Image
