A Quote by Dana Gould
I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.
So much of our business is 'What have you done lately?' There is no resting on the laurels.
The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.
It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.
I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.
I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.
I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.
As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.
If you built a successful company the first time, it's really important not to fall into the trap of resting on your laurels and doing the same thing the next time. It's stepping into the unknown that enables you to create something fresh, new, and innovative.
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.
I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.
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