5 Posts found for Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins

Schedule is how we make our intentions manifest in the world.

Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Observations

When you win, you don’t examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You can easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you’ve worked and how…talented you are; it doesn’t particularly define you beyond those characteristics. Losing, on the other hand, really does say something about who you are. Among … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subject: Success / Failure

There’s no difference between a man with no power and a man with power who doesn’t use it at all.

Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subject: Power / Authority

…personal comfort is not the only thing worth seeking…comfort only takes us to a point that’s known. Since when did sheets with the right thread-count, a coffee maker, and an electric toothbrush become the only things worth having or working toward? Too often, comfort gets in the way of inner reckonings.

Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subjects: Life, Perception

If you lead a largely unexamined life, you will eventually hit a wall. Some barriers can be invisible until you smack into them. The key, then, is to investigate the wall inside yourself, so you can go beyond it. The only way to do that is to ask yourself painful questions…

Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subjects: Learning, Life