Quotes About Stretch

Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable. I like the term "stretch" for describing what deliberate practice feels like,

tasks that leverage your expertise tend to be deep tasks and they can therefore provide a double benefit: They return more value per time spent, and they stretch your abilities, leading to improvement.

Not only did Jordan's early practice require him to constantly stretch himself beyond what was comfortable, but it was also accompanied by instant feedback. The teacher was always there, Jordan explained, "to jump in and show me if I junked up a harmony.

As if the years he had spent interpreting signs that no one else could even see had stretched him, pulled him out of focus.

Worse than a toddler,' she thought, and stretched out beside him. He flicked her a glance that said, 'I'll allow you to pet me.' Except, when she reached out to stroke the soft fur behind his ear, his glare said, 'But only with your gaze.

Ah felt a paralysis ay emotion as time stretched out. A pervading numbness was setting in, like a dentist's anaesthetic, spreading through ma body.

The Galaxy was high in the sky and its misty lens shape stretched lazily from horizon to horizon.

Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.

That's what I love - to be pushed out of my comfort zone.

I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.

It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.

Unless I'm a little bit scared about something, I'm genuinely not actually entirely happy. I feel I need to be just that little bit outside my comfort zone, and then I can really surprise myself and stretch myself, and I think that's a really good thing for any actor.

For an actor to grow, she needs to play roles that put her out of her comfort zone.

The way to connect to people is to relate to who they are and do something that stretches you outside of your comfort zone.

I love to take up projects outside my comfort zone and give them my best.

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.

When they came to shoe the horses, the beetle stretched out his leg.

The phone conversations about a possible TV series of 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' stretch back years, but now that the moment has come, now that I am actually here at Wentworth Woodhouse, I lose my bearings.

I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves.

I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

But, I like the challenge of, "How can we stretch this out? Where can we go with it?" It's an open road, especially at Netflix. You can take it anywhere you want.

Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clohes

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

morning, it touches the nerves quickly as if we were already in the hunter's sights. the body yawns and stretches in the light. the pilgrimage is about to begin.