Grit Quote by Jonah Lehrer Download Open image “Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.” — Jonah Lehrer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grit Quitting Refusal Resilience Stubborn
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“According to Dr. Angela Duckworth, grit is passion and perseverance toward long-term goals. [...] Grit is sticking to one thing for years or even decades.” — Benjamin P. Hardy Copy Share Image
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Grit is sticking with your future day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years and… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard. — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
There are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments. In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people,… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“When the mind is denied the emotional sting of losing , it never figures out how to win.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Londoners are really good at dealing with any crap that's thrown at them. We hunker down, we grit our teeth and we get on… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence. — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
“The grits were lumpy, but the flavor was incredible: the garlic and onion powder, the cayenne's heat lingering after every bite, the creamy tang… — Shauna Robinson Copy Share Image
I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he… — Tom Chapin Copy Share Image
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
