"The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Practice Quotes

“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isnâ€™t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesnâ€™t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
“The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings”
“I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.322, Pan Macmillan
“So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.”
“Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.”
“British girls are as temperamental as Americans.”
“I definitely appreciated '60s music. My uncle and I used to take long road trips to visit my grandmother when I was going to NYU. We'd listen to Petula Clark and other 60's music and sing at the top of our lungs the whole time.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't "happiness", then what is?”

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