Automaticity Quotes

#1. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

John Wooden

#2. Avoiding automaticity through continual practice is another way of saying that great performers are always getting better. This is why the most devoted can stay at the top of their field for far longer than most people would think possible.

Geoff Colvin

#3. All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure ... MARK TWAIN

Julia London

#4. British Statesman, parliamentary orator and political thinker, Edmund Burke once said, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." This is true to say the least.

Robert Paulson

#5. What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes

#6. No point my telling you he's not worth it, I suppose ... I've seen enough men in my time. Whoever he is, he's not worth what you'll pay.

Emma Donoghue

#7. There is a lot of 'Halo' movie material no one has ever seen in New Zealand.

Peter Jackson

#8. Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Laurence J. Peter

#9. I understood something else, too - that one kiss didn't change a thing. Anyone can give a kiss, after all; a kiss was how Judas Iscariot showed the Romans which one was Jesus.

Stephen King

#10. We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.

Richard Branson

#11. It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking ... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs ... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.

Graham Stuart Thomas

#12. Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

Maria V. Snyder

#13. When you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life - I'm sure you've experienced this yourself - it's not that every night is not it's own thing. It is.

Ted Leo

#14. Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants.

Amity Shlaes