Quotes About Patience

Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through.

to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

Super-slow practice works like a magnifying glass: It lets us sense our errors more clearly, and thus fix them.

After all, you aren't built to be transformed in a single day. You are built to improve little by little, connection by connection, rep by rep. As Wooden also said, "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.

GIVE A NEW SKILL A MINIMUM OF EIGHT WEEKS

If you have early success, do your best to ignore the praise and keep pushing yourself to the edges of your ability, where improvement happens. If you don't have early success, don't quit. Instead, treat your early efforts as experiments, not as verdicts. Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint.

As Wooden also said, "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.

As football coach Tom Martinez likes to say, "It's not how fast you can do it. It's how slow you can do it correctly." Second, going slow helps the practicer to develop something even more important: a working perception of the skill's internal blueprints—the shape and rhythm of the interlocking skill circuits.

Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

You don't have to do a bunch of crazy stuff to make your life complete. You just have to deal with life.

longer in extended bad weather. For passengers in steerage—scores

Small children cannot say what they want to be later because they don't really understand what later means.

Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double the juice from half the fruit.

will not tremble," Cicero wrote in the first century BC, "however much it is tortured.

Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Benjamin Franklin put it well: "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

He had an impeccable sense of timing, knew when to wait and when to move, and declared the state even before it was ready, because he knew that another opportunity might never arise. Not

I hope you will not listen to people who try to talk you out of your pain or show you ways to fix it. Because if your try too hard to fix pain, it only takes longer to heal.

that's not how wounds heal. They don't obey our wishes. Healing takes place in its own way and in its own time.

Treat everyone as you'd treat your grandmother, but assume that Grandma

He who laughs last doesn't get it." —HELEN GIANGREGORIO