Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there’s feedback.
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.
Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.
Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat.
The expert at anything was once a beginner.
I am the best in the world at what I do.
I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
Practice every time you get a chance.
Know your strengths and take advantage of them...
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.
Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.
Build your skills not your resume.
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name.
I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can’t begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can’t see how others have done it.
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.