Quotes About Proficiency

The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

This is the gift of training and expertise—the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience.

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.

We need to apply the rules of 10, 000 hours in order to achieve the level of a skill commensurate with the status of a world-class expert

Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field

You become the master of what you master.

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

Intelligence is knowing what's required of you

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

Nothing is fun until you're good at it.

Tip 1 Care About Your Craft We feel that there is no point in developing software unless you care about doing it well.

Gain familiarity with the shell, and you'll find your productivity soaring.

In the information age, because we all have access to information, everyone considers themselves an expert.

Successwise, you're better off being good at two complementary skills than being excellent at one.

When it comes to skills, quantity often beats quality.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

there were a lot of people out there who had no right to be carrying even a sharpened pencil, never mind a loaded weapon.

Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.