Quotes About Commitment

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

To play by David's rules you have to be desperate. You have to be so bad that you have no choice.

Without persistence, principles are meaningless. Because one day your dream may come true. And if you cannot keep that dream alive in the interim, then who are you?

Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science major," they write. You think you want to go to the fanciest school you can. You don't.

Their research suggests that once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.?

No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich ~ Chinese proverb

Herhangi bir ÅŸeyde çok iyi, gerçekten iyi olabilmeniz için en az 10 bin saat al??t?rma yapman?z gerekir.

Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

Hell, yeah, we're going to ride," the cussing preacher said and addressed his board. "Find you any kind of crack you can to hide in if you're scared, but I'm walking downtown after this meeting and getting on the bus. I'm not going to look back to see who's following me.

The people at the top don't just work harder. They work much, much harder.

The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don't give up. You double down. As Festinger recalled in an oral history, One of the things we expected would happen would be that, after the disconfirmation of this prediction...they would...have to discard their belief, but to the extent that they were committed to it, this would be difficult to do.

the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction—the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don't give up. You double down.

that extra practice under his belt, he really is better, so he's the one more likely to make it to

And the Beatles didn't recoil in horror when they were told they had to play eight hours a night, seven days a week. They jumped at the chance. Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

But a belief in work ought to be a thing of beauty.

If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy. (Chinese proverb)

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

The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más.

lo que distingue a un intérprete virtuoso de otro mediocre es el esfuerzo que cada uno dedica a practicar. Y eso no es todo: los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más. La

Herhangi bir ÅŸeyde dünya klasman?nda bir uzman olmay? saÄŸlayacak ustal?k düzeyine ulaÅŸmak için 10 bin saat pratik gerektiÄŸine iÅŸaret ediyor nörolog Daniel Levitin.

Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.