Acquisition Quote by Daniel Kahneman

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

— Edward de Bono

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

— DeRay Mckesson

The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various…

— John Dewey

We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning,…

— Donald A. Norman

Skills are really just circuits in your brain

— Daniel Coyle

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

— Albert Bandura

“deliberate practice—practice designed to develop mastery in the specific areas required by whatever role or position we are targeting.”

— David DiSalvo

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

— Angela Merkel

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and…

— Twyla Tharp

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

— Thomas Jefferson

“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