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.

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.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy.

The covenants are thus fulfilled through the teamwork of the whole Trinity

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.