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.

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.

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.

I wouldn't go back in time to erase you... No. I'd go back just to feel you twice. Then I'd press replay - again and again.

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.

Nature is powerful and beautiful, Nature is destructive and creative, Nature is amazing and wonderful, Nature is loving and graceful.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

Because I'm married and have kids, I feel like I sometimes get pegged as a choirboy or something, but I wouldn't exactly describe myself that way.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

God specializes in giving people a fresh start.