Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

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.

One who keeps an 'open mind' will be able to see God!

I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.

High expectations is the key to everything.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.