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...slow and steady wins the race, till truth and talent claim their place.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It’s like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.
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Holly Mosier
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Slow but steady wins the race.
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Aesop (Aesop's Fables (Illustrated))
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Slow and steady wins the race."
"That is almost always untrue."
"Take it up with Aesop."
"Aesop never existed. The stories credited to him were the work of two female slaves."
"That sounds about typical. I'll ponder it on the way down.
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Leigh Bardugo (Wonder Woman: Warbringer)
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Slow and steady wins the race.
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Aesop (Aesop's Fables The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse/The Boy Who Cried Wolf)
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Slow and steady wins the race, not the person who wants to climb the whole stairs in one stride.
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Michael Bassey Johnson (The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes)
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Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken.
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Syed Ather
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slow and steady wins the race, till truth and talent claim their place.
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B.J. Novak (One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories)
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As children, we were given a choice between the talented but erratic hare and the plodding but steady tortoise. The lesson was supposed to be that slow and steady wins the race. But, really, did any of us ever want to be the tortoise? No, we just wanted to be a less foolish hare. We wanted to be swift as the wind and a bit more strategic—say, not taking quite so many snoozes before the finish line. After all, everyone knows you have to show up in order to win. The story of the tortoise and the hare, in trying to put forward the power of effort, gave effort a bad name. It reinforced the image that effort is for the plodders and suggested that in rare instances, when talented people dropped the ball, the plodder could sneak through.
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)
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It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
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Robert W. Service
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Slow and steady wins the race!" From The Tortoise and the Hare.
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Aesop
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Businesses and entrepreneurs have become experts at microwaving rather than Crock-Potting their business plan. They are so worried about the moment, Q1 or Q2, that they lose their vision and their soul. They trade real, rich, abiding, deep success for the momentary win and then are constantly having to start over. Have a long-term vision and execute it. As the billionaire advised me, slow and steady wins the race.
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Dave Ramsey (EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches)
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Do you want to know the biggest lie in personal growth? The Tortoise and the Hare. You’ve been told that slow and steady wins the race. And you’ve been told that persistence and consistency create champions. They don’t. That’s because in real life, the rabbit always wins. Always.
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Ed Rush (The 21 Day Miracle: How To Change Anything in 3 Short Weeks)
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The early bird often gets the worm; but slow and steady wins the race.
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Anonymous
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There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.
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Robert W. Service
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THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE
A Hare was one day making fun of a Tortoise for being so slow upon his feet. "Wait a bit," said the Tortoise; "I'll run a race with you, and I'll wager that I win." "Oh, well," replied the Hare, who was much amused at the idea, "let's try and see"; and it was soon agreed that the fox should set a course for them, and be the judge. When the time came both started off together, but the Hare was soon so far ahead that he thought he might as well have a rest: so down he lay and fell fast asleep. Meanwhile the Tortoise kept plodding on, and in time reached the goal. At last the Hare woke up with a start, and dashed on at his fastest, but only to find that the Tortoise had already won the race.
Slow and steady wins the race.
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Aesop (Aesop's Fables)
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The Men That Don't Fit In There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest. If they just went straight they might go far; They are strong and brave and true; But they're always tired of the things that are, And they want the strange and new. They say: "Could I find my proper groove, What a deep mark I would make!" So they chop and change, and each fresh move Is only a fresh mistake. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last. He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance; He has just done things by half. Life's been a jolly good joke on him, And now is the time to laugh. Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost; He was never meant to win; He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone; He's a man who won't fit in.
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Robert W. Service (The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
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To be Socially and Morally Responsible today is like building the future but moulding it's bricks today. Slow and steady wins the race but Sure and Safe is a future guided by the Responsibilities of today
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Kelechi Erondu
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Slow and steady may win the race, but wise and humble will prepare you for the next one.
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V.A. Givens
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Slow and steady wins the race' sounds good only in story books. In real life, aim to be the hare who does not stop to rest.
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Ibn Jeem
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I run to a steady jog-trot rhythm, and soon it was so smooth that I forgot I was running, and I was hardly able to know that my legs were lifting and falling and my arms going in and out, and my lungs didn't seem to be working at all, and my heart stopped that wicked thumping I always get at the beginning of a run. Because you see I never race at all; I just run, and somehow I know that if I forget I'm racing and only jog-trot along until I don't know I'm running I always win the race. For when my eyes recognize that I'm getting near the end of my course -by seeing a stile or cottage corner- I put on a spurt, and such a fast big spurt it is because I feel that up till then I haven't been running and that I've used up no energy at all.
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Alan Sillitoe (The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner)
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I have grown to know I am the best in the world at streaming my high frequency genius into disruptive and transformational processes that become iconic public relational demonstrations...that fuels my drive... Finishing well is dependent on mastering process...steady wins in any resilience race!
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Dr. Tracey Bond
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Slow and steady wins the race. Don’t push her too hard.
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Michelle Heard (Control Me (Corrupted Royals, #2))
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Take it one step at a time. Slow and steady wins the race.
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Michelle Heard (Possess Me (Corrupted Royals))
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Sometimes, you may feel like everyone else is sprinting past you while you’re still tying your shoelaces. But hey, slow & steady wins the race, right? Maybe you’re not cutting corners or pulling shady stunts to get ahead, and that’s something to be proud of. So, don’t beat yourself. Remember, it’s not about how fast you get there; it’s about the journey & the integrity you maintain along the way. Keep doing you, and trust that your time will come when the universe decides you’re ready to shine.
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Life is Positive
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Part of learning the slight edge is finding your own “intrinsically optimal rate of growth,” and it is always served best by a step-by-step approach of constant, never-ending improvement, which lays solid foundations and builds upon them over and over. The slight edge is your optimal rate of growth. Simple disciplines compounded over time. That’s how the tortoise won; that’s how you get to be a winner, too. Having said that, now let me ask this: what is the real point of the story of the tortoise and the hare? All together now: Slow and steady wins the race, right? But notice something here: the point is not that there’s any special virtue to moving slowly. There’s nothing inherently good about slowness, and it’s just as possible to move too slowly as to move too quickly. The key word in the Aesop moral is not “slow.” The key word here is steady. Steady wins the race. That’s the truth of it. Because steady is what taps into the power of the slight edge. The fable of the tortoise and the hare is really about the remarkable power of momentum. Newton’s second law of thermodynamics: a body at rest tends to stay at rest—and a body in motion tends to remain in motion. That’s why your activity is so important. Once you’re in motion, it’s easy to keep on keeping on. Once you stop, it’s hard to change from stop to go.
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Jeff Olson (The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness)
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The power of momentum: steady wins the race. The power of completion: clear out your undones and incompletes. The power of reflection: facing the man or woman in the mirror. The power of celebration: catch yourself doing something right.
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Jeff Olson (The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness)
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Until slow and steady could win the race, being fast and speedier can bring no further grace
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Priyavrat Thareja
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Slow and steady does not win the race.
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Nicholas Woo
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Steady wins the race.
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Toni Sorenson
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Slow and steady wins the race.
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Abby Jimenez (Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2))
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The slow and steady wins the race but everyone invests in the rabbit.
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Aiden C. Patterson
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Slow and steady wins the race
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Shannon Riley-Coyner
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Some say that youthful enthusiasm is an admirable quality to possess, however, others might caution that in matters of business its often the slow and steady who win the race.
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Arlene Stafford-Wilson (Lanark County Comfort)
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In attaining wealth, it is better to be a tortoise than to be a hare. Slow and steady wins the race.
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Abdul Malik Omar (Ka-Ching! Your Money, Your Life: Financial Guide for Young Adults in Brunei)
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Slow-and-Steady wins no race at all except when no one is participating; because he completes the ‘competition’ when the judges and spectators have all gone home. Who then declares him winner?
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Vincent Okay Nwachukwu (Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1)
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His grandmother had a proverb for everything. ‘Well done is better than well said; Slow and steady wins the race.’ They went on and on. He’d always thought them ridiculous, as if human nature can be summed up in a greeting card. For some reason, one of them popped into his head. ‘The proof’s in the pudding.’ Since hooking up with Trevor again he’d eluded McBride and still had the vials. The proof was right beside him, and since he’d already tasted the pudding…
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Sam, Beau's Dilemma
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Fast and furious wins the race; slow and steady wins the rice
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P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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We’re getting off track,” Dolf said. “My point was that our goddess doesn’t make mistakes, and she’s not punishing you. Yes, the werewolves have a reputation of being assholes. Yes, they can be speciesist… and the same could be and has been said of us. Maybe it’s time for them to make a change too.”
“I’m supposed to be the instrument of that change? I’m not brave like Kirk or Lawson. Marshell can just about kick anybody’s ass. Me? I’m a beta. I’m not even the strongest beta here.” Aidric’s voice rose.
“But you’re steady,” Brier said.
“And steady wins the race,” Remi added.
“Oh, are you for real? This is not the turtle and the hare fairy tale the humans use to teach kids with,” Aidric snapped.
“No, but I bet you can make that were cry wolf,” Remi said quietly. “You are the most unrelenting of all of us. You never give up. Never. That’s your strength.”
Aidric laid his head on the table. “I’d have to leave here.”
Dolf ran his hand over Aidric’s hair. “Eventually, yes, you would. That kills me, but I want what’s best for you.”
“You think this is it?” Aidric sniffed.
“Bast doesn’t make mistakes. What she does she does for a reason. We just might not be able to see it at first. As much as I’d hate losing you, this is your future and your decision. You’ll always be welcome here, you know that,” Dolf said.
Aidric sat up and hugged Dolf. “Thank you
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M.A. Church (It Takes Two to Tango (Fur, Fangs, and Felines #3))
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Disrupting the vicious cycle between work addiction and loneliness has also had an unexpected and positive impact on his professional performance. “The paradox is that I became more productive and more effective, the more I slowed down and was aware and connected.” In a modern version of Aesop’s fable of the tortoise and the hare, Bryan was proving that slow and steady really does win the race. But the final benefit for Bryan was completely personal. “I was happier and more fulfilled,” he says. “I’m busy, but I’m having fun. I don’t feel like work is looming over me and driving me. I’m driving
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Vivek H. Murthy (Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness)