Student Success Statement

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do has increased.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

This quote is trying to tell us that when we persist at something, it becomes easier to do. It doesn’t become easier because the thing itself has changed; it becomes easier because we have a better ability to do this thing. Maybe one day you decide you want to start playing basketball. You have only just begun so you probably aren’t very good at it at all. But maybe eventually you could start getting better, then better, then better. Then in a few years you could be playing in the NBA as one of the core players on your team.