When you have done something well a dozen times, believe it!
From The Sum of All One's Mistakes, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The woman who sets out the folding chairs on Saturdays gave a short talk in the park today, four minutes, maybe five, and she shook so hard the paper buzzed. Afterward she told the man beside her that she never knows if she can do it. I have watched her do it since April. For years I thought the shaking meant the thing was still hard, and that the fear was a fair report from somewhere honest; now I think the fear simply does not keep records. When you have done something well a dozen times, believe it! Switch can clear the gap from the maple to the gutter, has cleared it all summer, and still sits on the branch counting it out first, and I have stopped being sure whether that is doubt or just how he likes to begin.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- Doing something halfway does not get you halfway there.
- After you ask how much you want something, ask how wise you are to want it.
- Before you start pushing a rock up a hill, make sure it’s a hill you want to climb.
- Ride the current from within if you want to make it all the way to the sea.
- Measure success by how well you have used what you were given and how much you have given back.
- We resolve to do what we lack commitment to do.