Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
Pat SummittRead
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Being stubborn can sometimes outweigh one's intelligence.
This quote by Pat Summitt highlights the tension between determination and wisdom. It illustrates the idea that while being resolute can lead to success, there are times when stubbornness can cloud judgment and hinder progress. It serves as a reminder to balance tenacity with thoughtful decision-making.
Themes
StubbornnessWisdomDeterminationIntelligenceBalance
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges in sports.
More from Pat Summitt
All quotes βThere is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
Pat SummittRead
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
Pat SummittRead
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
Pat SummittRead
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
Pat SummittRead
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
Pat SummittRead
Similar quotes
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai E. StevensonRead
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
Abraham LincolnRead
If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
Shirley MaclaineRead
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
J. K. RowlingRead
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
Edmund BurkeRead
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
Seamus HeaneyRead