23 Quotes by Thomas M. Sterner

The problem with patience and discipline is that developing each of them requires both of them.

The second step in creating patience is understanding and accepting that there is no such thing as reaching a point of perfection in anything.

One study states that repeating a particular motion sixty times a day over twenty-one days will form a new habit that will become ingrained in your mind.

When, instead, your goal is to focus on the process and stay in the present, then there are no mistakes and no judging. You are just learning and doing. You are executing the activity, observing the outcome, and adjusting yourself and your practice energy to produce the desired result. There are no bad emotions, because you are not judging anything.

Habits and practice are very interrelated. What we practice will become a habit.

The first step toward patience is to become aware of when your internal dialogue is running wild and dragging you with it.

Habits are learned. Choose them wisely.

Rushing had become so much of a habit that I was amazed at the amount of concentration it took to work slowly on purpose.

Consider a sailor trying to reach the horizon. It is unreachable. If the sailor sees the horizon as the point he must reach to achieve happiness, he is destined to experience eternal frustration.