“Luckily, I'm setting records without even thinking about it, without having the pressure of having to do as well as the person who came before me. It's more like, "Yeah, I'm doing my thing and what happens, happens," and fortunately those have been some pretty amazing results.” ThinkingWellsPersonsHas BeensHappensResultsRecordsPressureYeahSettingSettings Author:Mariel Zagunis
“The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.” PeopleWritingWholeValuesIndividualProcessResultsDistanceSettingSettingsRealms Book:Under My Skin Source: Under My Skin
“It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.” WayHas BeensEasyGoalHoursResultsEffortWorstJudgingSettingSettingsSetting GoalsEasy To Judge Book:How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
“Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.” RealEndsEnoughHelpingGoalResultsTechnologyCostResearchInnovationCleanDrivenSettingSettingsConsumersAppropriateAggressiveCarbonBreakthroughReductionTrajectoryBarometerResearch And Innovation Author:Vinod Khosla
“I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.” ThinkingWritingResultsFrontsProduceEmotionalSettingSettingsSurprisingUnfamiliar Author:Ralph Keyes