We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. –Will Durant1
Excellence in the future is directly related to practice in the present.
The champion fighter, as the saying goes, is not made in the ring; he’s revealed in the ring. It was endless hours of practice and preparation that made him a champion, not the few minutes in the spotlight.
Excellence, in whatever we choose to do, is the result of repeated practice—doing the right thing in the right way so many times that eventually it just becomes a part of who we are.
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The quote is often misattributed to Aristotle. See Frank Herron’s post about this common mistake. ↩︎