To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future.