Sarah Lewis Quotes & Sayings

You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. — Sarah Lewis

If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place . . . If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. — Sarah Lewis

We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do. — Sarah Lewis

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

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could, — Sarah Lewis

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

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. — Sarah Lewis

Mizuta Masahide's haiku: "My barn having burned down / I can now see the moon. — Sarah Lewis

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

A fuller vision comes from our ability to recognize the fallibility in our current and past forms of sight. — Sarah Lewis

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 aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success - an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit. — Sarah Lewis

Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond. — Sarah Lewis

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. — Sarah Lewis

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost, — Sarah Lewis

The word failure is imperfect. Once we begin to transform it, it ceases to be that any longer. The term is always slipping off the edges of our vision, not simply because it's hard to see without wincing, but because once we are ready to talk about it, we often call the event something else--a learning experience, a trial, a reinvention--no longer the static concept of failure. — Sarah Lewis

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving. — Sarah Lewis

How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist's print, not logical argument, which dealt the final blow to the slave trade - the broadside of Description of a Slave Ship (1789). — Sarah Lewis

A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.) — Sarah Lewis

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning. — Sarah Lewis