Quotes About Deliberate Practice

#1. Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

K. Anders Ericsson

#2. You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

Mark Ruffalo

#3. It takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise,

Susan Cain

#4. The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

David Brooks

#5. figure out when and where you're most comfortable doing deliberate practice. Once you've made your selection, do deliberate practice then and there every day. Why? Because routines are a godsend when it comes to doing something hard. A

Angela Duckworth

#6. The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance": "The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

K. Anders Ericsson

#7. A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.

Anders Ericsson

#8. Poe's drunkenness was a mnemonic device, a deliberate method of work, drastic and fatal, no doubt, but suited to his passionate nature. Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes.

Charles Baudelaire

#9. But exceptional performance depends not only on the groundwork we lay through Deliberate Practice; it also requires the right working conditions. And in contemporary workplaces, these are surprisingly hard to come by.

Susan Cain

#10. Ericsson says that it takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise, so it helps to start young.

Susan Cain

#11. Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. Excellence is renewed through deliberate practice, day in and day out.

Eric Greitens

#13. What separates experts from the rest of us is that they tend to engage in a very directed, highly focused routine, which Ericsson has labeled deliberate practice.

Joshua Foer

#14. What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement.

Susan Cain

#15. What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

Martin Seligman

#16. People who climb to the top of just about any field eclipse their peers through something as basic as deliberate practice.

Joseph Grenny

#17. Trusting one's emotions requires constant vigilance; intelligent intuition is the result of deliberate practice.

Jonah Lehrer

#18. deliberate practice requires that one identify certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, and then work intently on them.

Geoff Colvin

#19. The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it's necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate.

Archibald Marwizi

#20. People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

Thierry Henry

#21. A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are

Tove Jansson

#22. And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless young girls.

Richelle Mead

#23. Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

John Ruskin

#24. But ability yields to deliberate, organized practice. The brain is the most expansive organ we have; it really does change. You learn something and your brain changes.

Toure

#25. The challenge therefore, as you strive for success, is to make it a habit to live your life on purpose. You must learn to make deliberate plans and then practice the art and science of doing things on purpose.

Archibald Marwizi

#26. No, no, I never mess around.

Rick Riordan

#27. Always so very courteous. Lose courtesy, and you lose control; lose control and you lose yourself.

Claire North

#28. Learn from this, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Hell does have an exit, and I found it. For those who are still looking for a way out, I left the door open and I'll be waiting for whoever wants to grow with me.

Kid Cudi

#29. I stored up every moment like it was a physical thing. I'd thumb through memories whenever things were still. I spent more time with her than she ever knew.

Kiera Cass

#30. Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves.

Melissa De La Cruz

#31. One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.

D. Elton Trueblood

#32. Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

Thomas A. Bailey

#33. So many people get deals, so many YouTubers get scripts and things made because they're constantly creating things on their own. Even if it's really cheap and it's really simple, if it's just good in itself then that's all that matters.

Charlyne Yi

#34. A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.

John Norman

#36. Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly
so every stretch won't feel like your first.

Gina Greenlee

#37. Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

Sting

#38. You can always try another approach; even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.

Ada Yonath

#39. It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Robin Trower