Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice…

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

“Practice increasing your time spent counting your blessings versus complaining.”

— Eveth N Colley

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“deliberate practice” to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an “activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose…

— Cal Newport

“Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable. I like the term “stretch” for describing what deliberate practice feels like,”

— Cal Newport

“In other words, deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance.”

— Angela Duckworth

“Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that’s exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands…. Deliberate practice is above…

— Cal Newport

Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy.…

— Kevin Maney

Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to…

— Ramana Maharshi

“when a branch of psychology, sometimes called performance psychology, began to systematically explore what separates experts (in many different fields) from everyone else. In…

— Cal Newport

“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

“craft-centric.” Getting better and better at what I did became what mattered most, and getting better required the strain of deliberate practice. This is…

— Cal Newport

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

— Martin Seligman

“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I encountered the…

— Cal Newport

“Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievement. When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge that are…

— Susan Cain