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

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.

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.

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.

Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.

A Reader lives life (personal) within Life (social).

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

I haven't talked to [Donald] Trump since he made his comments about [John] McCain being captured; now he doesn't respect military guys that get captured.

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?