Hard work quotes
There are very few things that are valued as highly these days as hard work. Telling people how busy we are is often the first thing that we tell people after saying hi. However, most of the time we are busy being busy. We work hard on things that don't necessarily matter that much to us. That is partly why I built Angstrom. To help people work on the things that actually matter to them. Starting with their Life goals.
Even though I don't hold much weight in the hustle culture that has been popularized recently, I am a big fan of Gary V. He is not just about hustle. He also promotes balance in your life. What I like about this quote is that talent is overrated. Especially peoples' belief in their own talent. Resting on your percieved talent is a recipe of disaster.
Zig has some great quotes. This one is no different. Most people do not go the extra mile where there is the payoff for your hard work. The extra mile is where differentiation lives. Differentiation is what makes people remarkable and subsequently, successful.
This reminds me of a Muhammed Ali quote where he said that his fights are won behind closed doors without cameras, long before the fight even begins. Most successes are started this way. Garages in Silicon Valley or dorms at Harvard. These days though with the internet and hard work, success can be formed anywhere in the world. It is not limited by geography. Hard work should be seen as a vector, it needs magnitude and direction to yield success.
There are few that achieved Michael's heights in any field. He is a truly impressive human. Fair enough, he is genetically gifted but I am sure there are many other similarly gifted individuals that we have never heard of. Pushing our own limits is only possible after we work hard enough to get to the limit. From there we can see what is beyond and begin to dream about where the next limit could or should be.
Love this. So true. And it is becoming more true. Where you went to school is becoming more irrelevant every year. Learning is not though. I am sure that already there are hugely successful people that have learned their art at the school of youtube. This will become the norm.
Good old Conan. It's nice to be nice. Being kind as we all make our journey through life is an underrated quality. It's not just good for the people around us but it's good for us. Kindnees is almost always reciprocated and never has negative consequences.
I find this to be true with ideas. The more I work on an idea the deeper it gets. More and more strands are added and deeper connections are made the strengthen the idea. But that doesn't happen without action. Or it rarely does. You need to be actively engaged over a long period for connections to form. To me that feels like luck when it happens. But it's not. It's a payoff for sticking with things long enough to see beneath the surface and get real insisghts.
I believe that most people work hard. I may be wrong. What I feel that most people "don't turn up for" is the hard work that actually matters to them. Analysing yourself and your life and taking action on what you uncover about yourself. It's hard work to get true perspective. Just putting your head down and battling through the day is actually easier.
I think what the great Pele is trying to say here is that love, passion, enthusiasm and sacrafice are all what really matter to success. Can you have all of those things in your current job? Are you passionate about what you do? Do you love it? Do you think that you will be successful at it if the answer to any of those questions was no?
Love this and couldn't agree more. I regularly get emails from people saying how surprised they are that I built Angstrom on my own. If they knew how much I put into it they would not be so impressed. I am a very average developer but I am passionate about the project and what it can do for others and eventually for me.
This is a similar sentiment to the Michaelangelo quote above. Great endeavours can seem magical when you don't know what went into them. Don't wait for the magic. Just start. Take the first step. Let it feel magical to others at the end. You need to take the thousand steps in between.
I agree with this when the conflict is one that you have chosen and that gets you closer to your idealised self. The person you want to be. Conflict for conflicts sake is pointless no matter how great the odds that you have overcome.
Dominate your life.
Copyright 2019 BPM Ltd.
Dublin, Ireland