"World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached.Â Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again."

-- Matthew Syed

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“The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.”
“The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.”
“My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.”
“Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.”
“Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 11, 2017
“Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.”

Source : David Deutsch's response to the Edge Annual Question: "What is Your Law?", www.edge.org. 2004.
“The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as ridiculous as it is insulting to everyone in healthcare who does his/her best to meet the needs of their patients. The assumption that unproven or disproven treatments become acceptable simply because they are often administered in a kind and caring fashion is quite simply not true.”
“I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.”

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