There is no substitute for attentive repetition.

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

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.

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.

The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.

Knowledge without love is worse than ignorance. Action without love is madness...

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

Whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality.

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.

My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.

I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.

Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.