Skills are really just circuits in your brain

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.

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

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.

Your illusion can become a reality, when you let go of your fears.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.

I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.