Quotes About Progress

Purposeful practice involves feedback. You have to know whether you are doing something right and, if not, how you're going wrong.

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. This recipe is an excellent start for anyone who wishes to improve—but it is still just a start.

They had been pushed out of their comfort zone, and the muscles responded by getting strong enough to establish a new comfort zone. Homeostasis had been reestablished.

Most importantly, it is a gift that every one of us is born with and can, with the right approach, take advantage of.

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.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Time is a tease. Time is a tease–because everything has to happen in its own time.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

Toute situation présente au moins un élément positif ; il faut le trouver et travailler dessus.

"Know thyself" — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to "know himself" would never become a butterfly.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Herkeste geçici gerilemeler olur, hiç kimse geçmi?in, bilinçd???n?n ve çat??malar?n nihai bir biçimde birer aksesuar olarak bir kenara b?rak?ld??? bir ilerleme çizgisi izlemez. Hay?r, böyle bir ?ey yoktur, onlarla birlikte ya?ar?z ama ba?ka türlü ya?ar?z.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — romantic love and gunpowder.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- romantic love and gunpowder.

Lo que mas separa a las personas es, sin duda, que unos vivan en el pasado y otros en el presente.

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

great things begin at the end of the comfort zone. It is all about exploring the bleeding edge in your own time or with someone who will not judge you for it being beyond your comfort zone

You don't have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy.

It might not be the right way to end our journey, but it's the best way possible

every journey is important, and that no journey is impossible.