Sarah Lewis Quotations

Miller is making more and more declarations on different topics. We aren't going to react with any great force. Our rules are clear.

I got into Mock Trial because I really wanted to be an attorney when I was younger. If anything, it has reinforced it.

I enjoy when we have actual competitions because we finally get to display everything we are capable of. At Glenwood Springs, we have a history of winning. Winning always feels good.

He's coming to terms with being the main figure in the big times. And of course it takes time to learn coming from a quiet town to being one of the biggest ski stars in the world.

I think it's a little bit the image the people behind him want him to portray. It could be part of the problem.

That's the normal means of communication when you have something to say, by speaking to the parties involved, not the press.

We hope to beat our score last year and do better than eighth in the nation.

The prohibition from participating in the competitions is not a sanction, but is considered to serve to protect the health of the athlete.

This is not a sanction but a health measure.

They are dealing with it. It depends on the circumstance. They need to find out exactly what happened. It shows the importance of respecting instructions. This is the reason why access to the course is so limited and restricted because the risk is there.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,

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

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

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

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.)

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

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 constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

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.

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

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

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.

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.

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