Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

There is no substitute for attentive repetition.

To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

You have to be willing to stop and fix. Deep practice requires a willingness to do what many of us find uncomfortable: to admit to our errors, and focus on them.

Failure is not a verdict; making mistakes is the price of the ticket.

Skills are really just circuits in your brain

Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happiness in the world is the Joy of Giving.

It felt like fate. That if Gray Shadow and Caius could not find their way to each other, their bloodlines eventually did.

Maybe the entire world is in love with you and I'm the only one brave enough to admit it.

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.