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Daniel Levitin

"The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world- class expert-in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and againâ€¦no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery,"

Source : "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

Daniel Levitin

#Basketball Quotes #Player Quotes #Ice Quotes

“During the preproduction when I'm shooting and then once we wrap we go away. And then the visual effects guys take over. And then they add all those little bits and pieces. They come up with ideas during the cut in the editing, and they said while would be really cool if we did this thing here where the blade pops out. So then you see the movie and say wow that's a really neat idea. I wish we would have thought of that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.”
“I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.”
“Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.”
“They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you've been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard, nonetheless. And it's the quality of that bite that teaches you how connected you were to that thing, and where you stood in relation to it, then and now.”
“If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.”
“People help each other through a crisis by each supposing that the other can handle it better than he himself can.”
“The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.”

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