Quotes About Dedication

With deliberate practice, however, the goal is not just to reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before.

Call it "the New Year's resolution effect"— it's why gyms that were crowded in January are only half full in July and why so many slightly used guitars are available on Craigslist. So

Steve's performance illustrates a key insight from the study of effective practice: You seldom improve much without giving the task your full attention.

If all you want to do is to safely drive your car from point A to point B or to play the piano well enough to plink out "Für Elise," then this approach to learning is all you need.

Purposeful practice has several characteristics that set it apart from what we might call "naive practice," which is essentially just doing something repeatedly, and expecting that the repetition alone will improve one's performance.

TEACHER: How many times did you play it? STUDENT: Ten or twenty. TEACHER: How many times did you play it correctly? STUDENT: Umm, I dunno . . . Once or twice . . . TEACHER: Hmm . . . How did you practice it? STUDENT: I dunno. I just played it. This is naive practice in a nutshell: I just played it. I just swung the bat and tried to hit the ball. I just listened to the numbers and tried to remember them. I just read the math problems and tried to solve them.

You seldom improve much without giving the task your full attention.

Imagine a world in which doctors, teachers, engineers, pilots, computer programmers, and many other professionals honed their skills in the same way that violinists, chess players, and ballerinas do now. Imagine a world in which 50 percent of the people

I made it a point to recruit only subjects who had trained extensively as athletes, dancers, musicians, or singers. None of them ever quit on me. So here we have purposeful practice in a nutshell: Get outside your comfort zone but do it in a focused way, with clear goals, a plan for reaching those goals, and a way to monitor your progress. Oh, and figure out a way to maintain your motivation.

Guitarists spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

Le dedicaré mi vida al ajetreo, y el desorden será mi amo. Ahora durmamos

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20 000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

My father says that if I hit 2,500 balls each day, I'll hit 17,500 balls each week, and at the end of one year I'll have hit nearly one million balls. He believes in math. Numbers, he says, don't lie. A child who hits one million balls each year will be unbeatable.

Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.

The tennis bag is a lot like your heart—you have to know what's in it at all times.

ver trabajar a un artesano me calma, me ancla en la tierra, me inspira. Me recuerda la extraordinaria importancia que en este mundo tiene el trabajo bien hecho.

I know there are few children in the world who could have seen that ball, let alone hit it. But I take no pride in my reflexes, and I get no credit. It's what I'm supposed to do. Every hit is expected, every miss a crisis.

la mitad de las veces me ocurre a mí. Aunque ocupo una de las diez primeras posiciones del ranking mundial, hay días en que parezco un aficionado.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

The only true failure can come if you quit.

I pledge allegiance to perspiration …

Voglio solo fare cose che mi entusiasmano. Cose in cui credo totalmente, senza nessun genere di riserva. Senza nessun patteggiamento o adattamento alla realtà o abbassamento di soglie.