Quotes About Deliberate Practice

"Tiger was born into the home of an expert golfer and confessed 'golf addict' who loves to teach and is eager to begin teaching his new son as soon as possible."

— Geoff Colvin

"When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you."

— Marshawn Lynch

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

— Jim Rohn

"Deliberate practice is a structured and specific set of personalized development activities."

— Geoff Colvin

"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."

— Anton Chekhov

"Deliberate Practice: Not just 'Practice Makes Perfect' but Deliberate Practice"

— Unknown

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

— Benjamin Disraeli

"When most people practice, they focus on the things that they can do effortless. Expert practice is different. It entails considerable, specific and sustained efforts to do something you can't do well, or even at all. It is only by working on what you can't do that you turn into the expert you want to become."

— Anders Ericsson

"Deliberate practice: continuous Feedback"

— Unknown

"We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve."

— Bill Gates

"You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing. There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you."

— Brett Hoebel

"Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation."

— Shiv Khera

"What is required is ten thousand hours of purposeful practice. And for practice to be truly purposeful, concentration and dedication, although important, are not sufficient. You also need to have access to the right training system, and that sometimes means living in the right town or having the right coach."

— Mathew Syed

"Practice enables people to perceive more, to know more, and to remember more than most people."

— Mathew Syed

"China and Ping-Pong, Brazil and soccer; all the successful systems have one thing in common: they institutionalize the principles of purposeful practice."

— Mathew Syed, Bunce

"I think with practice, you can be whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in."

— Michael Phelps

"The key to learning is feedback. It is impossible to learn anything without feedback."

— Steve Levitt

"It is practice, not talent that holds the key to success."

— Anders Ericsson

"Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge. In other words, when it comes to success, what matters isn't so much about learning something new, but putting into practice what we already know."

— Laodicah Nyaribari

"Professional golfer Moe Norman, who played from the 1950s to the 1970s, hit eight hundred golf balls a day, five days a week from age sixteen to thirty-two when he retired."

— Geoff Colvin

"Deliberate practice is not mechanically repeating tasks that come easily, but rather targeting and attacking specific areas that need improvement."

— Anders Ericsson

"Everything is practice."

— Pele

"Deliberate practice includes having others tell us exactly what's not right after each unsuccessful attempt so we can keep working at it until we get better."

— Geoff Colvin

"Extended deliberate practice is the true key to success"

— Anders Ericsson

"Both success and failure are largely the results of habits."

— Napoleon Hill

"These children understand that no one has ever accomplished great things, not Mozart, Darwin or Michael Jordan without years of passionate practice and learning."

— Carol Dweck

"The most effective deliberate practice activities are those which can be repeated at high volume."

— Geoff Colvin

"To become a world class performer you must practice the right skills executed in the right way."

— Mathew Syed

"The rule of thumb is that it takes at least 10,000 hours of purposeful practice over a ten year period to get to the top, but success isn't assured by 10,000 hours of any old practice."

— Mathew Syed

"The right sort of training carried out over a sufficient period of time leads to improvement."

— Anders Ericsson, Peak

"Practicing without feedback is like bowling through a curtain that hangs down to knee level. You can work on technique all you like, but if you can't see the effects, two things will happen: You won't get any better, and you'll stop caring."

— Geoff Colvin

"I have a father who believe in efficient practice. My dad simplified the process by helping me to practice each piece until I mastered each and then it was easy to combine the different pieces that I had practiced together."

— Yo-Yo-Ma cellist.

"Deliberate practice involves doing something so many times in practice you can perform flawlessly in the heat of competition."

— Geoff Colvin