the differences between expert performers and normal…

“the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain.” American”

— Cal Newport

The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,…

— K. Anders Ericsson

Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems…

— Ernest Sosa

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.

— Zig Ziglar

“In our effort to improve the present moment, we fail to appreciate how good it already is. In our effort to improve the present…

— Amit Sood

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or…

— Tom G. Palmer

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

— Jackie Cooper

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one…

— Tom G. Palmer

“To ‘up your game’ means, simply, to make the effort to improve what you are doing—to amplify, boost, or strengthen your talents or performance.”

— Susan C. Young

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of…

— Tom G. Palmer

Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

— Edmund Hillary

“As I write this, I am making a conscious, deliberate effort to be as clear as I possibly can and minimize any potential ambiguity.…

— Ali A. Rizvi

“When you make a deliberate effort to keep your thoughts positive, and authentically feel that way, more positive outcomes are inevitable.”

— Susan C. Young

I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

— Xun Kuang

If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort,…

— Xun Kuang