Deliberate Practice Quotes

Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

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 rewarding. And it takes time.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

I got into pool tournaments when I was five, playing every weekend in competitions. Then one day I started playing snooker. I learnt by practising on my own, repeating the same shots again and again, and watching other players and copying what they did.

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

With anything you do and you dedicate yourself to and you dedicate thousands and thousands of hours, eventually you're gonna get a little bit better at it unless there's some innate impairment preventing that.

The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.

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.

Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they weren’t in the mood. Always pushing, practicing, working, and improvingYes it takes thousands of hours of practice, but that’s good news! It’s a clear path and it’s under your control.